Barton Gellman Quotes

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• In effect, you cannot stop Iraq from growing nasty bugs in the basement. You can stop them from putting operational warheads on working missiles and…
• The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new…
• NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally.
• U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
• Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.
• As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side.
• Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and…
• The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at times by subterfuge. A leading grievance holds that…
• Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.
• I have no evidence of any relationship between IRS and NSA.
• Palestinians have had to live for a long time with the fact that Israelis had power over them in their everyday lives.
• All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.
• Snowden has yet to tell me anything that was a fact that I have been able to rebut or that anybody in the U.S. government…
• Snowden has been very sparing about discussing his early life or his personal life.
• The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
• The funny thing is that Dick Cheney has done more than anybody in the White House for quite a long time to throw up roadblocks…
• No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
• Ecuador has never stated flatly that it would give asylum to Edward Snowden.
• Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
• Throughout the early and mid-1990s, the Clinton administration debated the merits of paying for AIDS testing and counseling of vulnerable populations overseas.

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