Encryption Export Controls, More to Come, and Likely Needed
It had been a while since I had seen a administrative fine imposed on a U.S. company for the unlawful of export of encryption technology. According to the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and...
View ArticleIran Efforts to Circumvent U.S. Export Control Laws Pay Off, Eventually
Haaretz reported yesterday that the Iranian Air Force had fired up at least one U.S.-made Phantom fighter in the battle against radical Islamic terrorism. According to Haaretz: The Iranian Air Force is...
View ArticleThe U.S.-Cuba Policy Betrayal, Another ‘Neville Chamberlain’ Moment
A reporter asked me yesterday if I knew or had been tipped off about the December 17 announcement by the Obama Administration. She had read a December 16 post on this blog, the Cuba Policy Canard,...
View ArticleTargeted Venezuela Sanctions, Better Late Than Never
President Obama has determined that the situation in Venezuela “constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States” and that additional...
View ArticleVenezuelan Regime Keeps Going for Broke, And Will Lose
Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro took out a full page ad in the New York Times to denounce targeted U.S. economic sanctions against seven of his henchmen that have engaged in human rights...
View ArticleWhitewashing and Policy Laundering Cuban Terrorism, Part II
UPDATE: Late yesterday evening, 9 Apr, The Hill newspaper reported, State Department Wants Cuba Removed From Terrorist List. Despite evidence to the contrary, the Obama Administration appears to be...
View ArticleCuba is a Terror State, Notwithstanding Presidential Decrees, and...
The Miami Herald reports this morning that Cuba’s removal from the state sponsors of terror list may prove more symbolic than business friendly. Some of the experts cited in the story have a somewhat...
View ArticleVoluntary Corporate Code of Conduct for Cuba Needed
One European company promises American and non-American travelers to Cuba the “ability to indulge in high end hotel and spa accommodations.” Last week, a fifth or sixth company was granted a U.S....
View ArticleCuba’s Next Pipe Dream: Oil Drilling Off Florida’s Coast
At a briefing at the White House yesterday with close to 80 Cuban-American Democrat Party donors and activists, senior administration officials supposedly briefed the group about the week in US-Cuba...
View ArticleABA Ad Hoc Coalition Submits Comments to USG on Proposed Revisions of US...
The Ad Hoc Coalition for Effective Export Control Reform (“CEECR”) submitted, on August 3, the embedded document to the U.S. Department of Commerce,Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) and the U.S....
View ArticleThe Humanitarian Drop “Exception” to the U.S. Embargo on Cuba
According to the Tampa Bay Times, a Florida man faces up to $100,000 in fines for alleged violations of the U.S. embargo on Cuba. It is a reminder to business travelers to the island to be mindful that...
View ArticleSomeone Needs to Remind Cuba That Access to the U.S. Market Is a Privilege,...
A federal judge in Miami has locked up a merry band of Cubans who were abusing U.S. and Florida laws to create sham marriages to secure entry to the U.S. This case is just one of many concrete examples...
View ArticleRussians Nabbed by DOJ in an Export Controls Violations Ring
A Brooklyn resident, a naturalized U.S. citizen, and two Russian nationals were arrested in last week for alleged violations of U.S. export control laws. If they are found guilty, they face as much as...
View ArticleYour Man in Havana
The attached law note, Your Man in Havana, was published in 54th edition of the London-based World Export Controls Review Journal. If you’re in the export controls or economic sanctions compliance or...
View ArticleCuba Needs to Pay In Order to Play
Opponents of U.S. economic sanctions, especially many in Congress as well as K Street special interests, argue that U.S. sanctions have not worked and, as such, it is time to try something different....
View ArticleIran + Cuba + Nanotechnology = High Probability for Trouble
What happens when a state sponsor of terrorism, Iran, announces high-tech collaboration with Cuba, a recently and likely erroneously de-listed state sponsor of terrorism? It’s a loaded question. You...
View ArticleTerrorist Group Using U.S. Armored Vehicles in Syria
For a few weeks now there have been reports on social media that Hizbullah, a terrorist organization under U.S. law, has been using U.S. M113 military armored personnel carriers (APCs) in Syria and...
View ArticleCatch the Leakers, Hold Them Accountable
According to documents published yesterday by WikiLeaks, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has, possibly had, the capability to hack, exploit software vulnerabilities, and so much more. Why is that...
View ArticleExporting Bomb Parts to Iran Lands Singaporean National 40 Months in U.S. Prison
Extradited from Indonesia to the United States early last year, Lim Yong Nam, a Singaporean national, was sentenced last week in U.S. federal court to forty months prison for illegal exports of...
View ArticleBreaking Up the D.C. Latin America Policy Cartel
It was Fourth of July recess week in Washington, D.C. this week. A good time of the year to catch up with colleagues, especially those working on Capitol Hill. One of the many meetings I had this week...
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