Note So Fast There
Steve Clemons, a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and a popular blogger who blogs at The Washington Note, has announced that he will soon be starting The Havana Note. He bills this new blog as a “new resource…
Clif Burns
Close Enough for Government Work
They say that close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. It also, however, counts in indictments, and the recent Sudarshan indictment, which we reported last week, is a case in point. That indictment is only half right, but that…
One That Should Have Gotten Away
Captain Ted Baier and his charter fishing boat “Lethal Weapon” went fishing in March 2003 and encountered Jaws — or, at least, the jaws of the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”). According to charging letters and settlement agreements just…
You Mean England Is a Separate Country?
The Bureau of Industry and Security has a new target: foreign employees of U.S. companies. BIS just posted an order, effective April 2, 2007, imposing a seven-year denial of export privileges on Stephen Lincoln, a citizen and resident of the…
Prosecution’s Argument in Mak Trial Makes Exports of 757s to China Illegal
We have criticized before the prosecution’s claim in the Chi Mak prosecution that the public domain exclusion doesn’t apply to exports of technical data to China. The prosecution bases its argument on language in section 126.1(a) of the ITAR that…