Harold Koh got slapped around by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday, but that was a small price to pay for the Administration for winning the ultimate battle. In a victory for President Barack Obama, a Senate panel voted Tuesday to approve U.S. participation in the military campaign against Libya and Moammar Gadhafi’s forces. The [...]

In a slightly surprising outcome (at least to me), three Republicans joined the Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in approving the new START arms reduction treaty with Russia. The final vote on the committee was 14-4. According to Tony Fleming, Richard Lugar, Bob Corker and Johnny Isakson joined all the Democrats in voting [...]

In addition to the energy/oil spill bill getting deferred to September at the earliest, the Senate also delayed its work on the New START Treaty, which I’ve been calling the Prague Treaty because that’s where it was signed. The Prague Treaty would reduce US and Russian nuclear stockpiles significantly, by about 30%, and put a [...]

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee released a report entitled “Tora Bora Revisited: How We Failed To Get Bin Laden And Why It Matters Today.” I support any effort to explain the history of Bush Administration blunders, and this report does an excellent job in that regard. I’m a little less clear, even after reading the [...]