Stephen Rademaker, a former Assistant Secretary of State under the Bush administration, has published a criticism of the Senate’s handling of the new START treaty with Russia in the Washington Post, which unlike the ping-pong match started by Mitt Romney, takes issue with the process of the passage of this bill.

Senate critics of New START have largely been cut out of the process. All but two Republicans on the Foreign Relations Committee formally asked the administration to share with them the negotiating record of the treaty. They were told no, even though there is precedent for accommodating such requests.