http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2009/07/secret_law-3.html Secrecy News from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Thu, 24 May 2012 10:04:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2009/07/secret_law-3.html/comment-page-1#comment-4113 Shipping Scales Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:14:44 +0000 http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/?p=2714#comment-4113 I am glad that a judge ruled accordingly. Our government should not be operating under secret policies and rules, it should be out in the open and able to be accounted for. Even though a judge ruled this, surely there are still lots of things going on secretly... I am glad that a judge ruled accordingly. Our government should not be operating under secret policies and rules, it should be out in the open and able to be accounted for. Even though a judge ruled this, surely there are still lots of things going on secretly…

]]> http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2009/07/secret_law-3.html/comment-page-1#comment-4099 Michael Deal Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:33:12 +0000 http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/?p=2714#comment-4099 A similar issue has been raised by the defense in the case of Dr. John Reece Roth, the University of Tennessee professor emeritus wrongly convicted of violating the Arms Export Control Act/ITAR by hiring foreign graduate students to work on an SBIR contract relating to plasma actuators. Although the trial judge rejected the government's argument that its certification of the classification of plasma actuators as ITAR USML Category VIII(h) was unreviewable, it allowed the government certification in as evidence that the jury could consider, rather than determining whether as a matter of law the models of plasma actuators tested on a test bench and civilian UAV were identified on the USML. A similar issue has been raised by the defense in the case of Dr. John Reece Roth, the University of Tennessee professor emeritus wrongly convicted of violating the Arms Export Control Act/ITAR by hiring foreign graduate students to work on an SBIR contract relating to plasma actuators. Although the trial judge rejected the government’s argument that its certification of the classification of plasma actuators as ITAR USML Category VIII(h) was unreviewable, it allowed the government certification in as evidence that the jury could consider, rather than determining whether as a matter of law the models of plasma actuators tested on a test bench and civilian UAV were identified on the USML.

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