The Center for Security Policy believes that it is incumbent on the Bush Administration to "stand-down" on further weakening of the U.S. and multilateral exportcontrol regime pending a complete reassessment of the present policy approach and rampant mismanagement of licensing decisions.
We met with the NSC people the other day, and we are going to reevaluate this whole exportcontrol issue and work our way toward some kind of a policy that has a balance between the economic and the national security elements of it.
Will he, as Deputy Secretary of State, recuse himself from future decision-making on this and similar East-West technology transfer cases as well as exportcontrolpolicy issues?
Under no circumstances should the United States assent to German demands for further liberalization of the multilateral exportcontrol regime unless and until Bonn can demonstrate the adoption of a far more conscientious technology security policyand effective enforcement of existing arrangements.
For their part, Rep. Gejdenson and his subcommittee have consistently failed to perform the sort of critical oversight of U.S. exportcontrolpolicy that might have prevented such disasters.