Barton Gellman Quotations | Page 3

White House officials acknowledge in broad terms that a president's time and public rhetoric are among his most valuable policy tools.

Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.

Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan.

Snowden has been very sparing about discussing his early life or his personal life.

NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.

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

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.

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

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

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