Apple’s Newest Fanboi?
Well, well, well. It seems that North Korea’s well-fed Dear Leader is planning his attack on the United States mainland using a 21.5 inch aluminum unibody iMac. Or perhaps he just uses it to play Call of Duty Mac…
OFAC Threatens To Fine Bank Employees in Sanctions Cases
Banks may be too big to fail but their employees, apparently, aren’t too small to nail. After taking a boatload of abuse during Senate Banking Committee hearings in December that no individuals were held civilly or criminally liable for the…
Seriously Bad People Who Have Done Seriously Bad Things. . .
Have you had a license application pending at the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) to export a defense article mysteriously denied? If so, you might have been “blue lanterned,” or, more accurately, the end user might have been “blue…
Government Ministers Who Are Also SDNs Can Make Deals Hazardous
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) has just released new guidance on the Burma sanctions and, more importantly, what’s left of the Burma sanctions. Buried at the end of the guidance is something of an answer to a conundrum…
How Many Lawyers Does It Take to Export a Lug Nut?*
Michèle Flournoy, a former undersecretary of defense, writes today in the Wall Street Journal in favor of export law reform in an op-ed piece (subscription required) titled “Want to Export an F-16 Fighter Jet?” Probably a better title would have…