Return-Path: <sentto-279987-5093-1028169564-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 31 Jul 2002 19:44:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 21970 invoked by uid 510); 1 Aug 2002 02:38:19 -0000 Received: from n3.grp.scd.yahoo.com (66.218.66.86) by all.net with SMTP; 1 Aug 2002 02:38:19 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-5093-1028169564-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [66.218.66.95] by n3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 01 Aug 2002 02:39:24 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_7_4); 1 Aug 2002 02:39:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 60114 invoked from network); 1 Aug 2002 02:39:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m7.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 1 Aug 2002 02:39:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (12.232.72.152) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Aug 2002 02:39:23 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g712fvs17760 for iwar@onelist.com; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 19:41:57 -0700 Message-Id: <200208010241.g712fvs17760@red.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 19:41:57 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [iwar] [fc:Export.Controls:..Bush.Wrongly.Eased.Computer.Controls,.Analyst.Says] Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=DIFFERENT_REPLY_TO version=2.20 X-Spam-Level: Global Security Newswire Tuesday, July 30, 2002 Export Controls: Bush Wrongly Eased Computer Controls, Analyst Says Congressional investigators have found evidence indicating that the Bush administration relaxed export controls on high-performance computers based on false information provided by the computer industry, arms control expert Gary Milhollin said in a column in today's Los Angeles Times (see GSN, Jan. 3). In August 2001, a computer industry lobbying group told the administration that by early 2002, a new generation of advanced computers would be on the market that could perform 190 billion operations per second, twice as many as the computers then under controls, said Milhollin, executive director of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control. The group asked the White House to relax export control levels to 190 billon operations per second so U.S. manufacturers could stay competitive, he said. The U.S. General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, found that the industry's claims were false, Milhollin said. Out of 10 companies that the group said would be ready to sell advanced servers, nine "would not introduce these servers in 2002 or had no plans to manufacture these servers due to the lack of software and a market for such powerful servers," the GAO reported, according to Milhollin. According to Milhollin, the GAO report says that the White House's eventual decision to reduce the export controls "was based not on an independent analysis but rather on information provided by industry." Milhollin also said that U.S. Commerce Department officials did not try to verify the lobbying group's claims and that the GAO found that the White House had relied on the group's letter for its decision. According to Milhollin, the GAO also found that the United States decided to relax its export controls on high-performance computers without consent from the other members of the Wassenaar Arrangment - an informal export control regime that regulates computing technologies (see GSN, March 22). "We can't ask our allies to keep dangerous equipment away from terrorists and the countries that support them if we don't control our own sales," Milhollin said. "All the other countries in this pact still control computers at much lower operating levels, which makes the United States a rogue exporter as well as a unilateralist" (Gary Milhollin, Los Angeles Times, July 30). ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Will You Find True Love? Will You Meet the One? Free Love Reading by phone! http://us.click.yahoo.com/7dY7FD/R_ZEAA/Ey.GAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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