(Washington, D.C.): Finally — after months of refusing to issue public calls for visible leadership on the Year 2000 (Y2K) crisis (a.k.a., the Millennium Bug), even when sharply pressed to do so(1) — President Clinton and Vice President Gore used the “bully pulpit” yesterday to raise an alarm about this impending danger. Unfortunately, the value …
(Washington, D.C.): In recent months, the growing appreciation in key business, media and political circles that the Year 2000 (Y2K) Crisis is shaping up to be a potential national and international catastrophe has been accompanied by an increasingly insistent question: Why are President Clinton and most especially his computer technology point-man, Vice President Al Gore, …
Senate Hearing Tomorrow Promises More Fireworks (Washington, D.C.): Yesterday, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) performed a tremendous public service. Under the leadership of Arnaud de Borchegrave, Senior Advisor at CSIS and journalist extraordinaire, the Washington think-tank convened many of the world’s preeminent experts on the so-called Millennium Bug to discuss “The Year …
(Washington, D.C.): There have been few more palpable indications of the Clinton-Gore Administration’s low regard for the U.S. nuclear weapons program than its appointees to run the Cabinet department responsible for the Nation’s ultimate deterrent. First, it used the position of Secretary of Energy as two-fer sop to feminists and African-Americans among its constituency, giving …
By Arnaud de BorchgraveWashington Times, 02 April 1998 Y2K = $50 billion for USG. That is the latest expert estimate of what it will cost the federal government to defuse the millennium computer bomb. Contained in a report by one of the government’s leading consultants on the year-2000 problem, known informally as Y2K, the figure …
(Washington, D.C.): On Friday, Steve Forbes sent a forceful two-page memorandum to Members of Congress and conservative leaders warning of the dangers of the Year 2000 (Y2K) computer crisis. Mr. Forbes’ memo — issued by his public policy group, Americans for Hope, Growth and Opportunity — is noteworthy not only for its being the first …
(Washington, D.C.): With official Washington completely absorbed with the prospects for renewed conflict with Iraq and President Clinton’s deepening personal problems, the timing and source of ominous developments in the Caspian Basin are not getting the U.S. attention they require. It would appear, as the Communists were wont to say, that this is “no accident, …
The ANA Hotel Washington, D.C. 15 January 1998 The thirteenth(1) in the Center for Security Policy’s series of High-Level Roundtable Discussions on major national security challenges addressed one of the most strategically significant of all those currently facing the United States: the Nation’s growing dependence upon space for both military and civilian purposes and the …
(Washington, D.C.): The direct effects of the Clinton Administration’s strategic error in contracting-out responsibility for finding a “solution” to Russia are now pretty obvious: an emboldened Saddam; a renewed lease on life for Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction program; a further discrediting of American leadership and credibility; and untold opportunities for the KGB’s Foreign Minister, …
By Fred L. Smith, Jr.and Marlo Lewis, Jr. Based Upon Remarks Made by Fred L. Smith, Jr. before the Casey Institute of the Center for Security Policy’s Symposium on “The Implications of the Global Climate Change Treaty for the U.S. Economy, Sovereignty and National Security” November 19, 1997 For more than 50 years, the political …