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Barton Gellman Quotes

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 the 16th Amendment, which authorizes the federal income tax, was ratified through fraud.

– Barton Gellman

At the height of Iraq’s clandestine nuclear weapons program, which nearly succeeded in building a bomb in 1991, Tuwaitha incorporated research reactors, uranium mining and enrichment facilities, chemical engineering plants and an explosives fabrication center to build the device that detonates a nuclear core.

– Barton Gellman

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

– Barton Gellman

Throughout the early and mid-1990s, the Clinton administration debated the merits of paying for AIDS testing and counseling of vulnerable populations overseas.

– Barton Gellman

The IronClad is faster than most thumb drives but far slower than a standard hard drive. Boot up, application launch and other Windows operations feel sluggish, though still usable.

– Barton Gellman

Everyone and his Big Brother wants to log your browsing habits, the better to build a profile of who you are and how you live your life – online and off. Search engine companies offer a benefit in return: more relevant search results. The more they know about you, the better they can tailor information to your needs.

– Barton Gellman

The first time I set out to find George F. Kennan, in 1982, I had just turned 21, begun my final semester at Princeton University and noticed with astonishment that the senior thesis deadline had crept to within four months.

– Barton Gellman

Enclosed by a sand berm four miles around and 160 feet high, the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility entombs what remains of reactors bombed by Israel in 1981 and the United States in 1991. It has stored industrial and medical wastes, along with spent reactor fuel.

– Barton Gellman

Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history dating to Pharaonic Egypt. The last case was in 1978, and the disease was declared eradicated on May 8, 1980.

– Barton Gellman

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

– Barton Gellman

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 as immediate, priority or routine, but the bureau says every one is covered.

– Barton Gellman

I don’t say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.

– Barton Gellman

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.

– Barton Gellman

Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.

– Barton Gellman

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

– Barton Gellman

By now, you’ve heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There’s a good chance you ignore them.

– Barton Gellman

I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.

– 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 other people can put their hands on it, you’re vulnerable.

– Barton Gellman

Doctrines don’t govern policy. They provide a conceptual framework by which policymakers approach their decisions. But there is no such thing as a doctrine that controls policy in every way.

– Barton Gellman

Most computers today have built in backup software.

– Barton Gellman

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 incorrect query and retrieves data about U.S phone calls or emails.

– Barton Gellman

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

– Barton Gellman

Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don’t want your employer to know you’re job hunting. You don’t spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don’t tell trade secrets to your rivals.

– Barton Gellman

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

– Barton Gellman

Scott Ritter is a very well-known archetype of a certain U.S. military officer. Very hard talking, very ambitious, zealous, and completely consumed with carrying out his mission. He’s a guy who, throughout his career, I would say, did not break rules, but he worked around road blocks.

– Barton Gellman

The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.

– Barton Gellman

The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose ‘family values’ agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.

– Barton Gellman

Of all Iraq’s rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.

– Barton Gellman

The CIA now assesses that four nations – Iraq, North Korea, Russia and, to the surprise of some specialists, France – have undeclared samples of the smallpox virus.

– Barton Gellman

Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.

– Barton Gellman

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