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...
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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...
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...
Sen. Inhofe Documents Clinton’s Culpability in Chinagate
(Washington, D.C.): One of the most courageous and principled security policy practitioners in elected office today is Sen. Jim Inhofe...
The Administration Quashes Truth Tellers On China
By Michael Ledeen, The Wall Street Journal, 10 June 1999 We hear from President Clinton and his defenders that he...
Successful T.H.A.A.D. Test Underscores Feasibility, Need for Rapid Deployment of Missile Defenses
(Washington, D.C.): At 7:19 EDT this morning, a Theater High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor rocket under development by Lockheed Martin...
Moscow Stiffs Western Bankers, While Paying Oligarchs And Eurobond Holders: A Sign of Things to Come in Russia?
(Washington, D.C.): According to the 5 June edition of The Economist magazine, Russia is seeking to delay by six months...
Cox Report Underscores Abiding Nuclear Dangers, Should Caution Against Efforts that Would Exacerbate Them
(Washington, D.C.): Today's release of the declassified version of the 900-page report, unanimously adopted last December by a select House...
Casey Institute’s Robinson Lays Bare China’s Most Serious Foreign Borrowing Operation: Penetrating the U.S. Bond Market
(Washington, D.C.): Even as relations between the U.S. and China have plummeted amidst revelations of Chinese espionage and attacks on...
Assad’s Syria is No Reliable ‘Partner for Peace’
(Washington, D.C.): The Clinton Administration has made clear that, as soon as the Israeli election process is finished, its campaign...
Giving ‘Clinton’s Legacy’ New Meaning: The Buck Stops at the President‘s Desk on the ‘Legacy’ Code , Other D.O.E. Scandals
(Washington, D.C.): Energy Secretary Bill Richardson is clearly in a swivet. After all, what was supposed to be a ticket-punching...
Toward a More Robust Approach to Export Controls?
Enzi Hearings Today Could Mark Watershed for U.S. Security (Washington, D.C.): Today, Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), chairman of the Senate...
Clinton Legacy Watch #39: Another Day, Another Fraudulent Deal
North Korea, Russia, Kosovo Accords Unlikely to Work Out (Washington, D.C.): The Clinton Administration is frantically trying to brace up...
Russia’s Gazprom Implicated In New Bid to Expand Rogue State Energy Production, Provide Life Support To Saddam Hussein
(Washington, D.C.): Even by Persian Gulf standards, the deal that Saddam Hussein has reportedly reached with his longtime enemy, Syrian...
Warily Watching China
By James Webb
The New York Times, 23 February 1999
An oddly nonlinear debate has emerged in Washington regarding the implications of China's growing power. Those who are concerned mainly...
Clinton Legacy Watch # 38: A Debacle in Kosovo, A Shattered NATO ?
(Washington, D.C.): Two months from tomorrow, President Clinton is scheduled to host festive ceremonies intended to honor the fiftieth anniversary...