New objectives for CFIUS: foreign ownership, critical infrastructure, and communications interception.(Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States)

I. of recent origin CHALLENGES

II. THE CFIUS PROCES

III. RISKS OF FOREIGN OWNERSHIP

IV. novel GOALS FOR REGULATION

Global economic integration creates of recent origin kinds of risks for national security. Foreign ownership of U telecommunications service providers is individual such risk. While foreign acquisitions of U companies are almost always harmless, there has always been pertain to among federal officials that foreign ownership could multiply opportunities for espionage, make defenders' tasks more mixed and reduce law enforcement communications interception capabilities. A of recent origin concern is that foreign