Reporting on the Senate’s first hearing on the New START agreement, The New York Times Peter Baker reports on May 18th:

The Obama team deflected the criticism, insisting that nothing in the treaty would inhibit missile defense plans.

Specifically, here is what Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified:

The treaty does not constrain our missile defense efforts. … Nothing in the New START Treaty constrains our missile defense efforts.

This language mirrors the original White House fact sheet on New Start which read:

The New START Treaty does not contain any constraints on testing, development or deployment of current or planned U.S.

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On May 14, Peter Baker (White House correspondent for New York Times since 2008) authored a highly misleading report on the administration’s plan for its stewardship of the US nuclear arsenal. Baker’s article “Obama Expands Modernization of Nuclear Arsenal” touts the release of a presidential report to Congress outlining the President’s plan to spend $80 billion over ten years on facilities and programs related to US defense nuclear weapons programs. Congress required this plan before the submission of New START to the Senate for ratification. Both the title and body of the article, however, failure to distinguish … Continue Reading