Will Senate Pass ‘No-Brainer,’ Insist on Right to Advise and Consent on Major A.B.M. Treaty Changes?
(Washington, D.C.): From time to time, students who perform abysmally on a test are given a chance to try again....
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Vote On C.W.C. Proves A Defining Moment: Lott Fails Test, New Security-Minded Leaders Emerge
(Washington, D.C.): It was positively surreal: Against the backdrop of televised images of emergency personnel in chemical protective gear trying...
Truth or Consequences # 9: C.W.C. Proponents Dissemble About Treaty Arrangements Likely To Disserve U.S. Interests
(Washington, D.C.): In recent weeks, a number of arguments have been advanced by proponents of the controversial Chemical Weapons Convention...
Chemical Reaction
ONE of the less-noticed legacies of Saddam Hussein is now being considered by the Senate: the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC),...
Republicans’ Senate Leadership Offers Constructive Alternative To Fatally Flawed Chemical Weapons Convention
(Washington, D.C.): The Senate Republican leadership (i.e., Majority Leader Trent Lott, Majority Whip Don Nickles, Republican Conference Committee Chairman Connie...
The System Worked On Lake; Will It On Tenet?
(Washington, D.C.): The failure of Tony Lake's nomination to become Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) was not, as President Clinton...
Hearing takes a toll on Lake nomination
By Frank Gaffney Jr. Washington Times, 18 March 1997 After three days of Senate hearings on Anthony Lake's nomination to...
In Lake’s Wake, A Higher Standard For D.C.I.
(Washington, D.C.): The Center for Security Policy welcomes the announcement last night that Anthony Lake has asked President Clinton to...
Attention ‘New Democrats’: The New Republic Explains Why Tony Lake Should Not Head The CIA
(Washington, D.C.): In its 24 March 1997 edition, the magazine reputed to be required reading for President Clinton, Vice President...
Why Tony Lake Is In Trouble In The Senate
(Washington, D.C.): As President Clinton and his allies on Capitol Hill turn up the heat on behalf of his controversial...
A Place To Start on Campaign Finance Reform: C.M.A. Should Refrain From Putting Senators in Compromising Positions On the Chemical Weapons Convention
(Washington, D.C.): Last night, the Chemical Manufacturers Association (CMA), an organization representing some 190 large American and multinational chemical producers,...
Caspian Watch # 5: Senator Byrd Takes the Lead in Securing U.S. Access To 200 Billion Barrels of Oil in the Caspian Sea
(Washington, D.C.): An important turning point may have been reached last week with regard to American policy toward the largest...
Good News, Bad News For U.S. Intelligence: State I.G. Clears The Gatis; Rep. Solomon Asks FBI Investigation of John Huang
(Washington, D.C.): From its founding in 1988, the Center for Security Policy has argued that international developments -- notably, the...
Who’s the Isolationist? Clinton’s Indifference to Security Policy in His Second Inaugural Will Make Cohen’s Life MIserable
(Washington, D.C.): President Clinton's first term was characterized by a remarkable paucity of serious attention paid to America's role in...
CONGRESSIONAL WHO’S WHO ON NATIONAL SECUR
(Washington, D.C.): As a contribution to an informed electorate essential to accountable democratic government, the Center for Security Policy is...
WHY THE SENATE MUST NOT APPROVE THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION
(Washington, D.C.): On 25 April, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee took action that -- if adopted by the full Senate...