C.T.B.T. Proponents Want Senate to Vote on Treaty, But Hope it Will Ignore the Accord’s Fatal Flaws
(Washington, D.C.): Thus, it begins. The public relations offensive on behalf of what is, arguably, the least effective, least verifiable...
Month: July 1999
Candid Halperin Remark, Cynical Clinton Statement Reflect Administration’s Abiding Hostility to Missile Defense
(Washington, D.C.): At a recent State Department meeting to prepare Secretary Albright for a National Security Council discussion of U.S....
Patent Deform will Serve Neither U.S. National Security or Economic Interests
(Washington, D.C.): In the post-Cold War period, even people who should know better seem to believe that economic performance and...
Non-Starter: Clinton’s Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty is Unworthy of Senate’s Time — Let Alone Its Consent
(Washington, D.C.): It must be asked: Why was President Clinton's Rose Garden statement yesterday -- in which he urged Senate...
Don’t Let the F-22 Fall Victim to a Defense ‘Train Wreck’
(Washington, D.C.): When the House Appropriations Committee voted last week to defer production of the Air Force's next generation fighter...
The Case Against Holbrooke
(Washington, D.C.) The pressure is building on the Senate to confirm Richard Holbrooke as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations....
Hillary’s ‘Conversion’ on Jerusalem Does Not Reflect Her Husband’s Policy — or Her Own, Long-held Views
(Washington, D.C.): Yesterday, First Lady/proto-Senate Candidate Hillary Clinton demonstrated anew the behavior that prompted Bill Safire to describe her as...
Administration Move To Normalize Relations with Castro’s Cuba Bucks Tide of History, Business
Will Gambit Be Next Source of Conflict Between Clinton and Gore? (Washington, D.C.): The truth is finally out. An unnamed...
Timmerman Offers Fresh Evidence That D.O.E.’s Front Office Needs to be Cleaned-Out, Not Just Rearranged
(Washington, D.C.): Yesterday, Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson finally threw in the towel on his doomed effort to persuade bipartisan...
The Next U.S. Peacekeeping ‘Boot’ To Drop: The Golan Heights?
(Washington, D.C.): The full costs of President Clinton's latest diversion of the U.S. military into a distant and highly problematic...
A Job for C.F.I.U.S.: Proposed Chinese Buy of U.S. Telecommunications Assets Needs National Security Scrub
(Washington, D.C.): On 23 June, Hutchison USA announced its investment of $957 million into the combined telecommunications company of Voicestream...