From my archive of press clippings:
Stars and Stripes
Struggle over Iran's nuclear capabilities playing out in courts, intelligence centers
By Warren P. Strobel, McClatchy Newspapers
Stars and Stripes online edition, Sunday, April 18, 2010
WASHINGTON — The shadow war between the U.S. and Iran was briefly visible last week at an extradition hearing in a Paris courtroom, where an Iranian engineer was answering U.S. charges that he'd illegally shipped U.S. technology to Iran.
Read the whole article here.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
NYT - Obama Is Urged to Open High-Tech Exports
New York Times
Obama Is Urged to Open High-Tech Exports
By CORNELIA DEAN and WILLIAM J. BROAD
Published: January 8, 2009
When Barack Obama takes office as president, he should immediately change or even scrap many cold-war-era regulations on high-tech exports and on immigration by foreign scientists and engineers, an expert panel said Thursday.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"Brent Scowcroft, a former national security adviser, was on a panel that criticized immigration restrictions on scientists.
Restricting foreigners’ access to strategically important technology might have been useful decades ago, when the United States was the undisputed world leader across the technological spectrum, the panel said in a report issued by the National Academy of Sciences. But today, it said, the nation is losing scientific and engineering dominance even as militarily useful advances come increasingly from civilian research.
The regulations do little for the nation’s security, the panel said, while significantly hampering economic growth and innovation."
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"But Baker Spring, a national security analyst with the Heritage Foundation, a conservative research group in Washington, said that while there might be merit in some immediate changes, anything that could be done quickly “is almost certain to be incomplete.”
Mr. Spring, who said he had not read the report, said he favored a country-by-country approach because policies appropriate for “close allies” like Britain or Australia might not be appropriate for countries like China.
Among other things, the panel said the president should do the following:
¶Restructure the export-control process to advance economic competitiveness as well as national security, allowing “openness and engagement to prevail unless a compelling case can be made for restrictions” which, in turn, must have “a rational basis.”
¶Require controls to be reassessed at least yearly.
¶Establish two independent panels within the National Security Council to assess controls and decide disputes about export limits.
¶Streamline the visa process for scientists and engineers and automatically allow foreign students to remain in the country at least a year after earning advanced degrees in scientific or technical fields.
¶Allow American experts to vouch for “well-known scholars and researchers” seeking to enter the United States."
Obama Is Urged to Open High-Tech Exports
By CORNELIA DEAN and WILLIAM J. BROAD
Published: January 8, 2009
When Barack Obama takes office as president, he should immediately change or even scrap many cold-war-era regulations on high-tech exports and on immigration by foreign scientists and engineers, an expert panel said Thursday.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"Brent Scowcroft, a former national security adviser, was on a panel that criticized immigration restrictions on scientists.
Restricting foreigners’ access to strategically important technology might have been useful decades ago, when the United States was the undisputed world leader across the technological spectrum, the panel said in a report issued by the National Academy of Sciences. But today, it said, the nation is losing scientific and engineering dominance even as militarily useful advances come increasingly from civilian research.
The regulations do little for the nation’s security, the panel said, while significantly hampering economic growth and innovation."
&
"But Baker Spring, a national security analyst with the Heritage Foundation, a conservative research group in Washington, said that while there might be merit in some immediate changes, anything that could be done quickly “is almost certain to be incomplete.”
Mr. Spring, who said he had not read the report, said he favored a country-by-country approach because policies appropriate for “close allies” like Britain or Australia might not be appropriate for countries like China.
Among other things, the panel said the president should do the following:
¶Restructure the export-control process to advance economic competitiveness as well as national security, allowing “openness and engagement to prevail unless a compelling case can be made for restrictions” which, in turn, must have “a rational basis.”
¶Require controls to be reassessed at least yearly.
¶Establish two independent panels within the National Security Council to assess controls and decide disputes about export limits.
¶Streamline the visa process for scientists and engineers and automatically allow foreign students to remain in the country at least a year after earning advanced degrees in scientific or technical fields.
¶Allow American experts to vouch for “well-known scholars and researchers” seeking to enter the United States."
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