Yesterday the U.S. Attorney’s office prosecuting the export case against Chi Mak came to it’s senses and reversed the position it had taken on exports of public domain data to China. Josh Gerstein has the details in his excellent article…
Last week OFAC released its typically opaque monthly report on recently imposed civil penalties. This report reveals that, once again, the full force of the Federal government was brought to bear on two hapless web surfers who bought some Cuban…
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…
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…
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…