National Security Law Today

The black letter law in this episode is:

Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/international/Pages/Committee-on-Foreign-Investment-in-US.aspx

Foreign Ownership, Control or Influence (FOCI)

http://www.dss.mil/isp/foci/foci_info.html

Executive Order 11858 establishing CFIUS

https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/11858.html

Dubai World Ports Controversy

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/uae-purchase-american-port-facilities

Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007 (FINSA)

https://www.congress.gov/110/plaws/publ49/PLAW-110publ49.pdf

50 USC 4565

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/4565

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 (1952)

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/343/579/case.html

Ralls Corp. v. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, et al., No. 13-5315 (D.C. Cir. July 15, 2014)

https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/B27E81AF31E360DA85257D16004E43E7/$file/13-5315-1502552.pdf

Obama order compelling the divestiture of the Ralls Windfarm

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/09/28/order-signed-president-regarding-acquisition-four-us-wind-farm-project-c

The proposed new CFIUS bill: Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2017 (S.2098)

https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/8/d/8ddd5830-5e2b-4e7c-9c6f-2c206c953868/5A37EAB23418E531304A42ABA8CF0B2F.cfius.pdf

David Fagan is a partner at Covington & Burling

https://www.cov.com/

The black letter law and links in this episode:

The ABA Cybersecurity Handbook, 2nd Edition

https://shop.americanbar.org/eBus/Store/ProductDetails.aspx?productId=280127783&term=cybersecurity

HIPAA Security Regulations

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/security/laws-regulations/index.html

Presidential Policy Directive 21

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/02/12/presidential-policy-directive-critical-infrastructure-security-and-resil

Anthem Breach

http://www.databreach-settlement.com/

Foreign perpetrators of the Anthem Breach

http://www.insurance.ca.gov/0400-news/0100-press-releases/2017/release001-17.cfm

WannaCry affecting the NHS in the UK

https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Investigation-WannaCry-cyber-attack-and-the-NHS.pdf

Yahoo breach causing the General Counsel to resign

http://www.bakerbotts.com/ideas/publications/2017/03/yahoo-breach-results

Volkswagen executive sentenced

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/dec/06/oliver-schmidt-jailed-volkswagen-emissions-scam-seven-years

ABA Ethics opinion 477R

https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/professional_responsibility/aba_formal_opinion_477.authcheckdam.pdf

Paradise Papers the result of a hack of Appleby

http://www.businessinsider.com/financial-secrets-of-super-rich-stolen-offshore-appleby-2017-10

Homeland Security Report on Information Sharing

https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/HSAC_InfoSharing_FinalReport.pdf

Types of Information Sharing Organizations

https://www.dhs.gov/topic/cybersecurity-information-sharing

Legal ISAO

https://www.grfederation.org/Members-LS-ISAO

Auto ISAC subpoenaed in Flynn v. FCA

https://www.wileyrein.com/newsroom-newsletters-item-December_2017_PIF_Security_Discussions_Are_ISACs_Operations_Vulnerable_to_Third_Parties.html

Panama Papers &the result of a breach at the firm Mossack Fonseca

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/10/panama-papers-mossack-fonseca-offices-raided-over-odebrecht-bribery-scandal

DLA Piper breached by the NoPetya ransomware

https://abovethelaw.com/2017/06/global-biglaw-firm-paralyzed-by-new-ransomware-attack/

Jill Rhodes is Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Option Care.

The black letter law discussed in this episode is:

Nuremburg and Tokyo Tribunals

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/nuremberg

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

http://www.icty.org/

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

http://unictr.unmict.org/

International Criminal Court Rome Statute

https://www.icc-cpi.int/nr/rdonlyres/ea9aeff7-5752-4f84-be94-0a655eb30e16/0/rome_statute_english.pdf

Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia

https://www.eccc.gov.kh/en

Ad-Hoc Court for East Timor

https://www.globalpolicy.org/international-justice/international-criminal-tribunals-and-special-courts/adhoc-court-for-east-timor.html

Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights

https://www.state.gov/j/drl/vp/

NAFTA Dispute Settlements

https://www.nafta-sec-alena.org/Home/Dispute-Settlement/Overview-of-the-Dispute-Settlement-Provisions

Jesner V Arab Bank

https://www.oyez.org/cases/2017/16-499

Kiobel v Royal Dutch Petroleum

https://www.oyez.org/cases/2011/10-1491

Alien Tort Statute 28 USC Section 1350

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1350

SEC Rules on Conflict Minerals

https://www.sec.gov/opa/Article/2012-2012-163htm---related-materials.html

SEC Release declaring that those rules are no longer in effect

https://www.sec.gov/news/public-statement/corpfin-updated-statement-court-decision-conflict-minerals-rule

EU Rules on Conflict Minerals

http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/in-focus/conflict-minerals-regulation/

Xander Meise is a partner with Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp

https://www.msk.com/

You can also hear her on the Secure Line podcast

http://thesecureline.com/

This is Part II of our conversation with Steven Pelak. The black letter law in this episode is:

National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2008, Pub. L. 110-181 § 1083

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-110publ181/pdf/PLAW-110publ181.pdf

Justice for US victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Act, 34 U.S.C.§ 20144

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/34/20144

Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, Pub. L. 107-297, 2002

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-107publ297/html/PLAW-107publ297.htm

Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act 28 U.S.C. §1602-11

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title28/html/USCODE-2011-title28-partIV-chap97.htm

In re Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001, 714 F.3d 109 (2d Cir. 2013).

https://www.leagle.com/decision/inadvfco130725000045

Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act PUBLIC LAW 114–222

https://www.congress.gov/114/plaws/publ222/PLAW-114publ222.pdf

Persinger v. Iran, 729 F.2d 835 (D.C. Cir. 1984).

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/729/835/313268/

Smith v. Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, 101 F.3d 239, (2d Cir. 1996).

http://uniset.ca/other/cs5/886FSupp306.html

Rein v. Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, 162 F.3d 748 (2nd Cir. 1998).

http://uniset.ca/other/cs5/995FSupp325.html

Roeder v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 333 F.3d 228 (D.C. Cir. 2003).

https://www.justice.gov/osg/brief/roeder-v-islamic-republic-iran-opposition

Hill v. Republic of Iraq, 328 F.3d 680, (D.C. Cir. 2003).

https://openjurist.org/328/f3d/680/hill-v-republic-of-iraq

Ewlahi v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 124 F.Supp. 2d 97 (D.D.C. 2000).

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/124/97/2569541/

Weinstein v. Islamic republic of Iran, 184 F. Supp. 2d. 13, (D.D.C. 2002).

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2470630/weinstein-v-islamic-republic-of-iran/

Campussano v. Iran, 281 F.Supp.2d 258 (D.D.C. 2003).

https://www.leagle.com/decision/2003539281fsupp2d2581525

Mohamad v. Palestinian Authority, 566 US __ (2012).

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/566/11-88/

Cicippio- Pueleo v. Iran, 353 F.2d 1024 (D.C. Cir. 2004).

https://openjurist.org/353/f3d/1024/cicippio-puleo-v-islamic-republic-of-iran

Fritz vs. Islamic Republic of Iran

https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/7887942/FRITZ_et_al_v_ISLAMIC_REPUBLIC_OF_IRAN_et_al#

United States v. ZTE, No. 17-CR-120 (N.D. Tex. 2017) – “Satisfaction of Judgment”

https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/law_national_security/USAvZTE%20Satisfaction%20of%20Judgment.authcheckdam.pdf

BNP Paribas fined for sanctions violations

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/bnp-paribas-sentenced-conspiring-violate-international-emergency-economic-powers-act-and

January 2017 Report by the Special Master Kenneth Feinberg to U.S. Congress - U.S. Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund, http://www.usvsst.com/docs/USVSST%20Fund%20Congressional%20Report%201-9-17.pdf

August 2017 Supplementary Report by the Special Master Kenneth Feinberg to U.S. Congress – U.S. Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund, http://www.usvsst.com/docs/USVSST%20Fund%20Supplemental%20Congressional%20Report%208-2-2017.pdf

The law firm of Holland & Hart can be found at https://www.hollandhart.com/

The black letter law discussed in this episode is:

Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, Pub. L. 104-132, §221 (1996)

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-104publ132/html/PLAW-104publ132.htm

Addition of Terrorism Exception to FSIA, 28 USC §1605(a)(7)

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1605A

Justice for US victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Act, 34 U.S.C.§ 20144

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/34/20144

Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act 28 U.S.C. §1602-11

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title28/html/USCODE-2011-title28-partIV-chap97.htm

Actions Against Foreign States, 28 U.S.C. §1330

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1330

Provision of Material Support or Resources, 18 U.S.C. §2339(A).

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2339A

International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages, 9 June 1983, No. 21931, (Jan. 1985 - U.S. effective).

https://treaties.un.org/doc/db/terrorism/english-18-5.pdf

Hostage Taking, 18 U.S.C. §1203

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1203

Torture Victim Protection Act 1992 Pub. L. 102-256

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-106/pdf/STATUTE-106-Pg73.pdf

Alien Tort Statute 28 USC §1350

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1350

U.N. Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or punishment, 10 December 1984.

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CAT.aspx

Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation, No. 12325 (197).

http://www.un.org/en/sc/ctc/docs/conventions/Conv2.pdf

Mandatory Victims Restitution Act, 18 U.S.C. §3663(a).

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3663A

The Schooner Exchange v. Mcfaddon, 11 U.S. 116 (1812).

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/11/116/case.html

US v. Klein, 80 U.S. 128 (1871).

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/80/128/case.html

Letelier v. Republic of Chile, 488 F.Supp. 665. (D.D.C. 1980).

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/488/665/1400196/

First National City bank v. Banco Para El Comercio Exterior de Cuba, 462 U.S. 611 (1983).

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/462/611/case.html

Smith v. Libya, 101 F.3d 239 (2d Cir. 1996).

https://www.leagle.com/decision/1996340101f3d2391294

Princz v. Germany, 813 F.Supp. 22 (D.D.C. 1992).

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/813/22/1807808/

Alejandre v. Cuba, 42 F. Supp. 2d 1317 (S.D. Fla. 1999).

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/42/1317/2501671/

WAMAI et al v. REPUBLIC OF SUDAN et al, No. 1:2008cv01349 - Document 55 (D.D.C. 2011)

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/district-of-columbia/dcdce/1:2008cv01349/132534/55/

1952 Jake Tate Letter, State Department Office of Legal Counsel reprinted in 26 DEP'T ST. BULL. (1952) Pages 984-985

https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t3515kb1d?urlappend=%3Bseq=470

Steve Pelak is a partner at Holland & Hart

https://www.hollandhart.com/

Thank you to Advisory Committee Chair Harvey Rishikof for appearing in this episode.

The black letter law discussed in this podcast is:

Foreign Spies: Stealing U.S. Economic Secrets in Cyberspace (2011 ONCIX report)

http://www.thecre.com/fisma/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Foreign_Economic_Collection_2011.pdf

Economic Espionage Act, 18 U.S.C. §1831-1832: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1831

And https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1831

E.O. 13694 (April 1, 2015), Blocking the Property of Certain Persons Engaging in Significant malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/01/executive-order-blocking-property-certain-persons-engaging-significant-m

U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security, Entity List: https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/policy-guidance/lists-of-parties-of-concern/entity-list

Update to the IP Commission Report, February 2017: http://ipcommission.org/report/IP_Commission_Report_Update_2017.pdf

Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974: https://www.trade.gov/mas/ian/tradedisputes-enforcement/tg_ian_002100.asp

Full Trade Act: https://legcounsel.house.gov/Comps/93-618.pdf

U.S.-China Cyberspace norms developed in 2015: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/25/fact-sheet-president-xi-jinpings-state-visit-united-states

United States v. Wang Don, Sun Kailiang, Wen Xinyu, Huang Zhenyu, Gu Chunhui, Indictment:

https://www.justice.gov/iso/opa/resources/5122014519132358461949.pdf

Chinese national Sentenced to Prison for Conspiracy to Steal Trade Secrets, October 5, 2016: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chinese-national-sentenced-prison-conspiracy-steal-trade-secrets

U.S. and Chinese Defendants Charged with Economic Espionage and Theft of Trade Secrets in Connection with Conspiracy to Sell Trade Secrets to Chinese Companies, February 8, 2012: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-and-chinese-defendants-charged-economic-espionage-and-theft-trade-secrets-connection

Chinese National Pleads Guilty to Economic Espionage and Theft of a Trade Secret from U.S. Company, May 19, 2017: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/chinese-national-pleads-guilty-economic-espionage-and-theft-trade-secret-us-company

Kansas Agricultural Scientist Convicted in Theft of Engineered Rice, February 16, 2017: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/kansas-agricultural-scientist-convicted-theft-engineered-rice

Chinese National Who Conspired to Hack into U.S. Defense Contractors’ Systems Sentenced to 46 Months in Federal Prison, July 13, 2016: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chinese-national-who-conspired-hack-us-defense-contractors-systems-sentenced-46-months

ZTE Corporation Agrees to Plead Guilty and Pay Over $430.4 Million for Violating U.S. Sanctions by Sending U.S.-Origin Items to Iran, Mary 7, 2017: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/zte-corporation-agrees-plead-guilty-and-pay-over-4304-million-violating-us-sanctions-sending

Article: Cyber Crime Costs Projected To Reach $2 Trillion by 2019 https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevemorgan/2016/01/17/cyber-crime-costs-projected-to-reach-2-trillion-by-2019/#7b255b873a91

The National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Justice can be found online: https://www.justice.gov/nsd

The black letter law discussed in this episode is:

The International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA)

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Documents/ieepa.pdf

Export Administration Act

http://legcounsel.house.gov/Comps/eaa79.pdf

Arms Export Control Act

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2010-title22/html/USCODE-2010-title22-chap39.htm

Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty

https://www.un.org/disarmament/wmd/nuclear/npt/text

Biological Weapons Convention

http://disarmament.un.org/treaties/t/bwc/text

Wassenaar Arrangement

http://www.wassenaar.org/

Wassenaar Control Lists

http://www.wassenaar.org/control-lists/

US Patent and Trademark Office Export Controls

https://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/support-centers/electronic-business-center/export-control

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Export Controls

https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/ip/export-import.html

ITAR International Traffic and Arms Regulation (ITAR)

https://www.pmddtc.state.gov/regulations_laws/itar.html

Export Administration Regulations (EAR)

https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/regulations/export-administration-regulations-ear

Kidane v. Ethiopia

https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/E0C614D73F037CAD852580E3004EE648/$file/16-7081-1665840.pdf

http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/sites/dcd/files/show_public_doc.pdf

European Union Dual Use Regulations

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=1489490204085&uri=CELEX:02009R0428-20161116

Export Control Classifications (21 for ITAR and 10 for EAR)

https://research.ncsu.edu/sparcs/compliance/export-controls/exports-tree/exports-tree-lists/

ITAR 126.1

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/22/126.1

Defense Distributed v. United States Department of State

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3111635-15-50759-Documents.html

Obama Era Export Control Reform Initiative

https://www.export.gov/article?id=Export-Control-Reform-ECR

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher can be found at www.gibsondunn.com

Joel Brenner's report - https://internetpolicy.mit.edu/reports/Report-IPRI-CIS-CriticalInfrastructure-2017-Brenner.pdf

Follow the Standing Committee on Law and National Security on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ABANatSec

Public Interest Declassification Board - https://www.archives.gov/declassification/pidb

Freedom of Information Act - https://www.justice.gov/oip/freedom-information-act-5-usc-552

FOIA.gov - https://www.foia.gov/

Department of the Navy v. Egan 484 U.S. 518 (1988) - https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/484/518/

OpEd in Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/06/08/reality-winner-isnt-a-whistleblower-or-a-victim-of-trumps-war-on-leaks/?utm_term=.a045522ee39e

Espionage Act - http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=3&psid=3904

Executive Order 13526 (Classification) - https://www.archives.gov/isoo/policy-documents/cnsi-eo.html

Vaughn Index definition

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2002-title32-vol5/html/CFR-2002-title32-vol5-sec701-39.htm

Executive Order 12968 (Security Clearance) - https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-1995-08-07/pdf/95-19654.pdf

SF-86 - https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf86-non508.pdf

Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act - https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-90/pdf/STATUTE-90-Pg2891.pdf

PanAm 103/Lockerbie bombing - http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/26/world/pan-am-flight-103-fast-facts/index.html

Victim’s families vs. Libyan government - http://uniset.ca/other/cs5/995FSupp325.html

28 USC 1605A (Terrorism Exception to FSIA) - https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1605A

JFK Assassination Records - https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/2017-release

Mark Zaid is a founder of the Whistleblower Aid project - https://whistlebloweraid.org/

He is the managing partner of The Law Offices of Mark Zaid - http://www.markzaid.com/

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