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For weeks now numerous Obama Administration officials have been delivering speeches that they are busy at work reforming what they call “outdated” U.S. export control laws. Outside input has been limited to a very select group of industry and like-minded academic types. Even key Congressional Committees have been kept out of the substantive loop.
Better the [...]
The U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) published today Congressionally mandated regulations to implement the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 (CISADA). President Barack Obama signed CISADA into law earlier this summer.
While CISADA specifically targets Iran’s energy sector, the law is already having a [...]
A May 31, 2010 United Nations IAEA report may bolster case for advocates of a new round of Iran sanctions. The findings state that Iran has enough fuel for two nuclear weapons. The question for those of us who follow these issues in D.C. remains: will the Obama Administration focus on the UN [...]
On the resignation of DNI Blair, Frank Gaffney penend this week, Don’t Stop with the DNI. Gaffney says, “[w]hile the exact reasons for Admiral Blair’s departure have yet to be fully explained, chances are they involved frustrations he and others felt with the office of DNI and its dysfunctional relationship to the rest [...]
The potential for new U.S.-Iran sanctions has been lingering about for what seems to be a political eternity. If a month is a light year in politics, we could have sent astronauts to Mars and back at least twice by now. Media and Capitol Hill sources are now reporting that House leadership will move this [...]
In a bizarre but an increasingly all too common approach in the new Washington of “change,” the U.S. Envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, suggested this week that the U.S. should consider using economic sanctions to force Israel to negotiate with the Palestinians. Our best ally in the region bullied, while we coddle [...]
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