Cheney was among the best secretaries of defence the country has ever had. He was a very effective White House chief of… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Most people inside the bureau believe that the blown opportunities to head off 9/11 would not recur today. Even among the FBI's… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
White House officials acknowledge in broad terms that a president's time and public rhetoric are among his most valuable policy tools. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Among all the upheavals of war with al Qaeda, the surest indicator of the historic stakes is the ongoing rotation of top… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Google appears to be the worst of the major search engines from a privacy point of view; Ask.com, with AskEraser turned on,… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance… — Barton Gellman Copy Share
For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for… — Barton Gellman Copy Share
Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache… — Barton Gellman Copy Share
I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and… — Barton Gellman Copy Share
I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins… — Barton Gellman Copy Share
U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well. — Barton Gellman Copy Share
Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving. — Barton Gellman Copy Share
Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws. — Barton Gellman Copy Share
The United States, a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, destroyed the last of its stocks of VX and other chemical agents on the… — Barton Gellman Copy Share
As Trotsky didn't exactly say, you may not be interested in electronic snoops, but snoops are interested in you, whether or not you keep… — Barton Gellman Copy Share
You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where… — Barton Gellman Copy Share
I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help. — Barton Gellman Copy Share
Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few. — Barton Gellman Copy Share
