Wonked (or Not?)
Jeffrey Lewis, who works at a DC think tank and who blogs at Arms Control Wonk, took issue with our post on the Sudarshan indictment. Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear that either he or Scott Gearity, whom he quotes, bothered to…
Clif Burns
Bombs, Baseball, Missiles and Red Flowers
A short round-up of current export items that don’t merit their own posts: The Bush administration has lifted the informal arms embargo against Israel and approved the export of 3,500 Mk-84 air bombs to Israel. The last announced sale had…
Between an Embargo and a Hard Place
LogicaCMG, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of U.K.-based LogicaCMG plc, pleaded guilty last Wednesday to violating the U.S. embargo on Cuba. According to a Department of Justice press release, the violation occurred in 2001 when New Hampshire based CMG, which was…
BIS Fines Supermicro Employee $60,000 for Exports to Iran
The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) recently released a settlement agreement in which Robert Abreu, the Senior Director of Strategic Sales for Supermicro Computers, agreed to pay $60,000 to settle charges arising from illegal exports of computer motherboards to…
White House’s Proposed Export Legislation Released
The White House’s early Christmas gift to BIS — the Export Enforcement Act of 2007 — was posted this afternoon on the Bureau of Industry and Security’s website. When we reported on it yesterday, only a somewhat misleading Reuter’s wire…