Enclosed by a sand berm four miles around and 160 feet high, the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility entombs what remains of reactors bombed by Israel in 1981 and the United States in 1991. It has stored industrial and medical wastes,… — 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
