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bench marks, sub-limits, arcane definitions and monitoring provisions that weighed down past arms control treaties,” said Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.). “It assumes a degree of trust between nations that are no longer on the precipice of war.” Those were words from Kyl’s floor speech on March 6, 2003, in support of ratification of the Moscow Treaty, signed nine months earlier by President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The resolution for ratification passed that day without opposition, 95 to 0 with five senators absent, including Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), today’s minority leader. Twenty-four Republicans who voted for that treaty seven years ago are in the Senate today, but not one, save possibly Sen. Richard G. Lugar (Ind.), has indicated he or she will vote for the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), negotiated by President Obama’s team. New START has sub-limits, definitions and monitoring provisions. In fact, Kyl and many of the 23 other senators are critical of elements of New START that they readily accepted or ignored in the agreement they embraced seven years ago. The three-page Moscow Treaty called for reducing by Dec. 31, 2012 — 10 years later — both countries’ strategic nuclear warheads as described individually by the two presidents. Bush’s statement was given on Nov. 13, 2001, at the time of a meeting with the Russian president. Putin spoke at the Russian Embassy in Washington on that same date, and he expanded his views on Dec. 13, 2001, in Moscow. Bush described the limit as 1,700 to 2,200 “operationally


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deployed” nuclear warheads. Putin mentioned numbers in only the December statement, saying the limit “should be at the level of 1,500 to 2,200 nuclear warheads for each side.” The Bush-Putin treaty does not include the phrase “operationally deployed” when it refers to the 1,700-to-2,200 limit on “strategic nuclear warheads.” At the first of two hearings


that the Senate Armed Services Committee held on the treaty in 2002, Sen. Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.), then as now chairman of the panel, noted that the phrase “operationally deployed” would be “key to the treaty” because those were apparently the only weapons put under limits. Yet, he pointed out, there was no definition of “operationally deployed” attached to the treaty. When Levin asked Secretary


of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld whether the Russians had a similar interpretation since Putin had not used language similar to Bush’s, Rumsfeld agreed that the negotiators had not included “any precise definition.” But, the secretary added, “we have indicated what we consider it to be, and there is no question that the Russians will be using something roughly approximating that.” How times have changed. This year, one of the main issues of Republican opponents, including Kyl, has been the exact meaning of language linking strategic offensive weapons to missile defense. Kyl and others are demanding a look at the negotiating record to satisfy themselves on the meaning of the language and to make sure no private deals were reached. No request was made eight


First female director appointed to run NGA Long will lead


relocation, consolidation of intelligence staffs


by Marjorie Censer Capital Business Staff Writer


Letitia A. Long became the first woman to lead a major U.S. intel- ligence agency in the Department of Defense on Monday when she took over the directorship of the Na- tional Geospatial-Intel- ligence Agency. The transfer of au-


thority was made atop a parking garage at the agency’s sprawling new Springfield campus, which is about 83 per- cent complete. Long, formerly the


years ago to see if there was a common understanding on “operationally deployed.” At an Armed Services Committee hearing in June, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said first among his areas of concern on New START was to feel “confident that the treaty is verifiable.” Back in 2002, McCain did not attend the Armed Services hearing at which Rumsfeld said, “One reason we saw no need for including detailed verification measures in the treaty” was “there simply isn’t any way on earth to verify what Russia is doing with all those warheads.” Rumsfeld added, “Neither side should have an interest in evading the terms of the treaty, since it codifies unilaterally announced reductions.” Despite the lack of means to verify compliance in 2003, McCain voted to ratify the Moscow Treaty.


Republicans have sought some guarantee that promises in the Obama administration’s 10-year plan to modernize the nuclear weapons complex will be carried out. This year, directors of the nation’s nuclear laboratories have testified, as has the director of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), in support of New START. Kyl and others are visiting the labs, seeking further information from the directors. Eight years ago, only one witness from the NNSA appeared at a hearing that just three Republicans attended. The NNSA’s Everet H. Beckner said


masterstroke.” —Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), a critic of today’s New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, speaking in 2003 about the Moscow Treaty


his agency had a “fairly aggressive” five-year budget plan for the future, but he never was asked for details. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) attended the Aug. 1, 2002, session and asked about the capability to produce more nuclear “pits,” the plutonium triggers for thermonucluear weapons. Beckner’s answers led Sessions to say, “So for a decade or so we have a window where this is problematic,” but nothing else was done or said. Sen. James M. Inhofe


(R-Okla.) illustrates another change between today’s Republican handling of New START and the 2003 arms treaty ratification process. Last month, at an Armed


Services hearing, Inhofe questioned the number of hearings being held and the failure to call opponents of the pact. As an example, Inhofe noted that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, of which he is a member, had held 12 hearings and heard 25 witnesses but that only two had voiced criticism of the treaty. He and other Republicans requested that Levin hold additional Armed Services hearings to give opponents a chance to testify. Armed Services has now had eight hearings on New START. Eight years ago, it was


different. In the months after the Moscow Treaty was signed, the Foreign Relations Committee held only four hearings and Armed Services just two. Two nongovernmental witnesses testified and noted that the pact had no verification procedures, though neither opposed its passage. Neither Inhofe nor any other Republican requested additional hearings or witnesses. In fact, at the second and last of the Armed Services hearings in 2002, Inhofe said he was “going to be very quick” with only one question to ask. Why? Because, he said, “we have had so many of these hearings, I have run out of questions.”


New report cites large backlog in FBI’s DNA analyses


says legal proceedings are affected by delays


by Ed O’Keefe


Thousands of legal proceed- ings could face delays because the FBI has more than 3,200 fo- rensic DNA cases backlogged, an issue that agency officials attri- bute to a lack of money and man- power, according to a new watch- dog report. The FBI Laboratory in Quantico each year processes hundreds of thousands of samples from convicted offend- ers and analyzes an average of 2,200 foren- sic DNA samples for ongoing cases. It had a backlog of more than 300,000 samples from convicted offenders in 2009 and anticipates eliminating the back- log by September. But a sizable foren-


sic DNA caseload remains: Cases involving the analysis of bodily fluids have climbed almost 40 percent, or 757 total cases, in the past year. Cases requiring the analysis of hairs, bones and teeth have climbed 130 percent, to a to- tal of 276, according to a report released Monday by the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General.


“Backlogs may delay legal pro- ceedings that are waiting on the results of DNA analysis,” the re- port said. “Backlogs can also pre- vent the timely capture of crimi- nals, prolong the incarceration of innocent people who could be ex- onerated by DNA evidence, and adversely affect families of miss- ing persons waiting for positive


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identification of remains.” The laboratory is not meeting


its goal of processing cases in 60 days, with some cases waiting as long as 600 days for final results, investigators said. As of March, there were 1,147 missing-persons cases, or 42 percent of the back- log.


Analysis of improvised explo-


sive devices (IEDs) sent from Af- ghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere are also backlogged. An analysis can take an average of 268 days to complete, and investigator say delays could hurt the military’s ability to prevent ter- rorist attacks by ham- pering efforts to iden- tify the bombmaker. The report faults the


The office of Justice IG Glenn Fine issued the report.


FBI’s delayed seven- year, $10million effort to develop an electron- ic tracking system for the backlog. Delays also are caused by the FBI’s efforts to help state and local forensic labs cut their backlogs and by federal legisla- tion passed in recent years — including the


USA Patriot Act — that allows law enforcement officers to col- lect DNA samples from anyone convicted of a federal offense and from non-U.S. citizens detained in the country, the report said. FBI officials touted the reduc- tion of the lab’s backlogs and faulted Congress for rejecting re- quests for almost $120 million for DNA analysis and $260 mil- lion to conduct the analysis of IEDs. “The FBI believes that our backlog numbers could be sig- nificantly lower had resources kept pace with the escalating submissions,” the agency said in its formal response to the report. ed.okeefe@washingtonpost.com


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state department’s member of the U.S. intelligence community. The National Geospatial-Intel-


ligence Agency was founded in 1996 as the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, bringing togeth- er work by the Central Intelli- gence Agency, the Defense Intelli- gence Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office, among others. It was renamed in 2003. About 8,500 of the agency’s 16,000 employees soon will work at the new campus, which the agency is calling “NGA Campus East.” The 130-acre tract just outside the Capital Beltway in Springfield once was a proving ground and is part of Fort Belvoir, though not connected. Construction contin-


deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, takes over NGA from Vice Adm. Robert B. Murrett, who had run the organization for four years. At the transfer ceremony, De- fense Secretary Robert M. Gates praised Murrett, who he said pushed for more NGA analysts and support staff in war theaters and oversaw agency work after the Haitian earthquake and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Gates said Long is the right per- son to take over the NGA, which “has grown into a critical link in America’s intelligence apparatus.” An Arlington resident and An- napolis native, Long began civil- ian federal service with the Navy in 1978 and 10 years later moved to the Director of Naval Intelli- gence staff. She has served as Dep- uty Director of Naval Intelligence and deputy under secretary of de- fense for intelligence for policy, requirements and resources. She becomes the NGA’s fifth di-


rector. Retired Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper Jr., confirmed as the new Director of National Intelligence last week, oversaw it from 2001 to 2006. Two women, Toby Gati and Phyllis Oakley, served as assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research (INR), leading the


Letitia A. Long, the agency’s fifth director, was DIA’s deputy.


ued Monday on the eight-story main build- ing that will serve as the NGA’s headquar- ters. Part of a larger Pentagon base realign-


ment program, the site will con- solidate local employees who work in about a half-dozen loca- tions, including facilities in Beth- esda, Reston, Fort Belvoir and the Washington Navy Yard. About a third of NGA’s workers are based in St. Louis.


Although the original concept for the new campus proposed 10 separate buildings, the NGA’s workforce pushed for a single main building to unite the organi- zation, said Tom Bukoski, the agency’s assistant program man- ager for design and construction. Some employees are already us- ing the campus — a technology center is in operation — but most of the workforce will begin relo- cating in January. The site offers parking for about 5,000, and Bu- koski said the agency is trying to assist with carpools. Additionally, the organization plans to operate shuttles to public transit. Murrett said the facility will help the agen- cy accelerate its work, and Long promised NGA will continue its close collaboration with the rest of the defense and intelligence community.


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