143 Quotes by Barton Gellman

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

In computer circles, any unencrypted data is known as 'cleartext.'

In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.

Iraq has, in effect, one export of any consequence. That's oil.

It was one thing to say the president’s politically appointed lawyers green-lighted domestic surveillance. It was another to claim a go-ahead from career civil servants, unbeholden to the White House.

McCain, the former Vietnam War POW, had won the moral victory and marched away. Cheney sliced out the only part of the bill he really cared about, and it looked as though McCain did not even know.

Nothing is absolute in security.

Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.