All Barton Gellman Quotes
- Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and… Advice
- Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws. Companies
- Ordinary Geiger counters, worn on belt clips and resembling pagers, have been in use by the U.S. Customs Service for years. Been
- 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 of… Afghanistan
- Al Qaeda is closely aligned with the Chechens. Al
- The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency, offered in the early spring of 1996 to… According
- Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan. Afghanistan
- For a decade, makers of AIDS medicines had rejected the idea of lowering prices in poor countries for fear of eroding profits in rich ones.… Act
- The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan. Began
- The defection of Hussein Kamel was a turning point in the U.N.-imposed disarmament of Iraq in the 1990s. Defection
- If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its… Among
- In late 2003, the Bush administration reversed a long-standing policy requiring agents to destroy their files on innocent American citizens, companies and residents when investigations… Administration
- A national security letter cannot be used to authorize eavesdropping or to read the contents of e-mail. But it does permit investigators to trace revealing… Affairs
- On average, since 9/11, the FBI reckons that just over 100,000 terrorism leads each year have come over the transom. Analysts and agents designate them… Agents
- No one can keep track of how many people use Internet, how many machines it can reach, or even how many sub- and sub-sub-networks form… Form
- True net-heads sometimes resort to punctuation cartoons to get around the absence of inflection. Absence
- As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of communications… Acquisition
- The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaida, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally… Adversaries
- Pakistan has dozens of laboratories and production and storage sites scattered across the country. After developing warheads with highly enriched uranium, it has more recently… Across
- Pakistan has accepted some security training from the CIA, but U.S. export restrictions and Pakistani suspicions have prevented the two countries from sharing the most… Accepted
- U.S. surveillance of Pakistan extends far beyond its nuclear program. There are several references in the black budget to expanding U.S. scrutiny of chemical and… Beyond
- Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often… Attacks
- China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats. China
- There is no reliable way to calculate from the number of recorded compliance issues how many Americans have had their communications improperly collected, stored or… American
- The causes and severity of NSA infractions vary widely. One in 10 incidents is attributed to a typographical error in which an analyst enters an… Analyst