By Marina Malenic The Obama administration is committed to overhauling Cold War-era rules on exports and streamlining the system for selling sensitive U.S. technology abroad, a top official said yesterday. Jim Jones, the President's National Security Adviser, announced the administration's plan to create a new agency that will merge export licensing activities at the State and Commerce departments under a board of directors reporting directly to the president. "There is no national security without economic security," Jones said during a…
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