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Politics : Clinton -- doomed & wagging, Japan collapses, Y2K bug, etc

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To: SOROS who wrote (342)	9/17/1998 8:44:00 PM
From: SOROS	of 1151

SCORE ANOTHER ONE FOR THE COMMUNISTS (here or abroad?) National Center for Policy Analysis GAO FAULTS COMPUTER EXPORT STUDY When the Clinton administration relaxed export controls on U.S. high-performance computers in 1996, it relied on a Stanford University study which concluded that such computers were already easily available around the world. The study did not check out how countries like China might use the computers for military purposes. But in a report to Congress, the General Accounting Office says such sophisticated computers are not readily available abroad and the Stanford study failed to assess how they might be used by an enemy. o Moreover, according to the GAO, loosening controls was not necessary to help American computer makers compete abroad -- as the Clinton administration contended -- because American manufacturers already dominated the overseas market. o The GAO's auditors said the Stanford study "lacked empirical evidence or analysis regarding its conclusion" that U.S. computer technology was uncontrollable worldwide and efforts to control it would harm the industry. o GAO officials say the authors of the Stanford study told them they did not analyze the national security threat because the federal government did not have the right information on which to base a study. Within a year after the export rules were loosened, military installations in Russia and China obtained a few powerful new American computers -- prompting criminal investigations and a retightening of export controls by Congress. William A. Reinsch, undersecretary of commerce, argued that the GAO was wrong to rank national security as the top priority in looking at the issue. Source: Jeff Gerth, "U.S. Agency Faults Study on Export of Computers," New York Times, September 17, 1998.

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