The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency, offered in the early spring of 1996... →
Barton Gellman
Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of... →
Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.
The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.
I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the... →
Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day... →
Snowden has yet to tell me anything that was a fact that I have been able to rebut or that anybody in the U.S. government I have talked to has been... →
The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at times by subterfuge. A leading grievance holds... →
If you're in government, the right thing to do is be focused on solving real problems and asking what's the best solution to a particular... →
Julius Genachowski
Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech reasons... →