Jones: Current Export Control System Is 'Potential National Security Risk'

By Pat Host / June 30, 2010 at 5:00 AM
National Security Advisor retired Marine Corps Gen. James Jones said today the United States' export control system is a "potential national security risk" because it is "overly complicated, contains too many redundancies and tries to protect too much." At a Capitol Hill lunch sponsored by Senate Aerospace Caucus co-chairs Patty Murray (D-WA) and Kit Bond (R-MO) along with the Aerospace Industries Association, Jones claimed there is "unanimous interagency agreement" across agencies and departments in the federal government to revamp the...

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