Across Quote by Barton Gellman

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

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

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

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

As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side.

— Barton Gellman

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

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

Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving.

— Barton Gellman

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

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

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

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