Barton Gellman Public Quotations

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.

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

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

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

For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for and behave in the initial chaos of a mass-casualty event.

Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws.