I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at times by subterfuge. A leading… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Snowden has yet to tell me anything that was a fact that I have been able to rebut or that anybody in… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use… — 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
The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency, offered in the early spring… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
