Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the 70s.

- 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 …

- Barton Gellman

Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.

- Barton Gellman

When the New York Times revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.

- Barton Gellman

First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aer…

- Barton Gellman

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

- Barton Gellman

In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.

- Barton Gellman

The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.

- Barton Gellman