Barton Gellman

The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.

— Barton Gellman

Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving.

— Barton Gellman

There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.

— Barton Gellman

In 1995, Glaxo bought Burroughs Wellcome and became the presumptive leader in AIDS therapy.

— Barton Gellman

I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.

— Barton Gellman

The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.

— Barton Gellman

The Patriot Act unleashed the FBI to search your email, travel and credit records without even a suspicion of wrongdoing.

— Barton Gellman

Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.

— Barton Gellman

In effect, you cannot stop Iraq from growing nasty bugs in the basement. You can stop them from putting operational warheads on…

— Barton Gellman

Counterterrorism analysts have known for years that al Qaeda prepares for attacks with elaborate 'targeting packages' of photographs and notes.

— Barton Gellman

When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.

— Barton Gellman

Snowden has yet to tell me anything that was a fact that I have been able to rebut or that anybody in…

— Barton Gellman

Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to…

— Barton Gellman

Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use…

— Barton Gellman

Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so…

— Barton Gellman

Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.

— Barton Gellman

The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency, offered in the early spring…

— Barton Gellman

During the morning rush hour on March 20, 1995, the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo placed packages on five subway trains converging on…

— Barton Gellman

Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a…

— Barton Gellman

Enclosed by a sand berm four miles around and 160 feet high, the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility entombs what remains of reactors…

— Barton Gellman

At the height of Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapons program, which nearly succeeded in building a bomb in 1991, Tuwaitha incorporated research reactors,…

— Barton Gellman

Snowden grants that NSA employees by and large believe in their mission and trust the agency to handle the secrets it takes…

— Barton Gellman

Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to…

— Barton Gellman

One common puzzle for the security-minded is how to work with confidential data on the road. Sometimes you can't bring your laptop,…

— Barton Gellman

No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.

— Barton Gellman

In the field of biological weapons, there is almost no prospect of detecting a pathogen until it has been used in an…

— Barton Gellman

Ordinary Geiger counters, worn on belt clips and resembling pagers, have been in use by the U.S. Customs Service for years.

— Barton Gellman

It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.

— Barton Gellman

Ecuador has never stated flatly that it would give asylum to Edward Snowden.

— Barton Gellman

I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.

— Barton Gellman

I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help.

— Barton Gellman

The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.

— Barton Gellman

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

— Barton Gellman

Snowden has been very sparing about discussing his early life or his personal life.

— Barton Gellman

Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S.…

— Barton Gellman

Federal prosecutors want to indict Julian Assange for making public a great many classified documents.

— Barton Gellman

Palestinians have had to live for a long time with the fact that Israelis had power over them in their everyday lives.

— Barton Gellman

There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.

— Barton Gellman

All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.

— Barton Gellman

The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.

— Barton Gellman