Barton Gellman

Federal prosecutors want to indict Julian Assange for making public a great many classified documents. ”

The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record. ”

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. ”

Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries. ”

Cheney was among the best secretaries of defence the country has ever had. He was a very effective White House chief of staff. He did not make many enemies, and he had the ability to persuade people with that soft tone and very reasonable style of his. He's always been exceptionally good as the right-hand man. ”

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 paths through the private affairs of a modern digital citizen. ”

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 I have talked to has been able to rebut. ”

All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula. ”

Some misunderstandings are hard to cure. ”

In 1995, Glaxo bought Burroughs Wellcome and became the presumptive leader in AIDS therapy. ”