A congressional investigator said Thursday the Clinton administration, in rules issued in its final days, failed to justify a decision to significantly relax controls on exports of high-performance computers. The Jan. 10 decision "fails to address all militarily significant uses for . . .
A congressional investigator said Thursday the Clinton administration, in rules issued in its final days, failed to justify a decision to significantly relax controls on exports of high-performance computers. The Jan. 10 decision "fails to address all militarily significant uses for computers at the new thresholds and assess the national security impact of such uses," said Susan Westin of the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress.

Westin, testifying to the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, said the inadequacies of Clinton's reasons for the changes demonstrated the need for a comprehensive study of how to determine what should be allowed to be sold abroad.

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