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PT Law’s Tamargo to Testify Before a Congressional Committee

Mauricio Tamargo will testify before the U.S. Congress, Natural Resources Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs, on Thursday, July 14, 2011. The Subcommittee is holding an oversight hearing on H.R. 44, the Guam World War II Loyalty Recognition Act, at 10:00 a.m., 1324 Longworth House Office Building. 

In his former capacity as Chairman of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission at the Department of Justice, in 2003 Tamargo also Chaired the Guam War Claims Review Commission. Tamargo is now being ask by Congress to explain the work of the Review Commission. He will outline the findings and recommendations of the Commission’s final report which was presented to the Department of Interior on June 9, 2004. For more information and a copy of the report, please visit the Department of Interior website.

Tamargo retired from federal service in 2010 and is a co-founder of Poblete Tamargo. Poblete Tamargo is a law and public policy law firm based in D.C. which offers its clients premium legal and public policy solutions. The firm concentrates on providing regulatory litigation and public policy counsel.

For further information on this upcoming Congressional hearing, please visit the Natural Resouces Committee’s website.

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Poblete Tamargo Attorney Appointed Vice-Chair of the ABA International Law National Security Committee

Jason Poblete has been appointed Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) International Law National Security Committee for a one year term starting August 2011. 

ABA_International_LawThe ABA Section of International Law, which has more than 20,000 members in 90 countries, is the leader in the development of policy in the international arena, the promotion of the rule of law, and the education of international law practitioners. The Section has numerous task forces and more than 60 regional and special interest committees within 12 divisions — Africa/Eurasia, Americas/Middle East, Business Regulation, Constituent, Corporate, Disputes, Finance, Industries, Legal Practice, Public International Law, International Treaties, and Tax, Estates & Individuals — to closely monitor and disseminate information on domestic and international policy developments with implications for law practice.

The National Security Committee is concerned with current legal and policy developments nationally and internationally that affect all security interests of the United States, with a particular focus on the rule of law, nonproliferation and disarmament of weapons of mass destruction, threats by nonstate actors, intelligence, military doctrine, and international institutions such as the United Nations and NATO. The Committee hosts programs with Members of Congress, current and former administration officials, members of governmental and international agencies, and other experts at regular ABA meetings and other venues, including the United Nations and Capitol Hill.

For more information, please visit the ABA International Law National Security Committee’s website.

 

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US Government Report on Iran Sanctions, Communications Technology

The Congress directed the GAO to “review issues related to Iran’s monitoring, filtering, and disruption of information and communications flows in two mandates: (1) Section 106 of the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 (CISADA) requires us to review a procurement ban against entities that export technologies to the Iranian government for monitoring, filtering, and disrupting informationandcommunicationsflows, and (2) Senate Report 111-201 related to the Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 directs us to identify entities that have a financial interest in the development of Iran’s ability to monitor, filter, and disrupt information and communication flows and determine which entities have contracts with the U.S. government.”

The report is available for dowload here.

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U.S. Imposes New Economic Sanctions on Iranian Entities

“The steps we have taken this week seek to limit Iran’s ability to use the global financial system to pursue illicit activities. We have made important progress in isolating Iran, but we cannot waver. Our efforts must be unrelenting to sharpen the choice for Iran’s leaders to abandon their dangerous course,” says a joint statement issued by the Department of State and the Department of the Treasury. 

The following entities and individuals were added to the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list:

  1. Benham Shariyari 
  2. Iran Air
  3. Iran Air Tours
  4. Mehr-E Eqtesad-E Iranian Investment Company
  5. Tidewater Middle East Company

Poblete Tamargo expects global economic sanctions toward Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism under U.S. law, to increase in the foreseeable future. The U.S. Congress is also considering numerous new pieces of legislation and have been pressuring the Obama Administration to ratchet pressure on the Iranian through robust use of U.S. sanctions. 

For additional information, visit the OFAC website.