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All Quotes by author - Barton Gellman

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

" As Trotsky didn't exactly say, you may not be interested in electronic snoops, but snoops are interested in you, whether or not you keep Coke's secret recipe on your iPhone. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" For personal use, I recommend the free and open-source Truecrypt, which comes in flavors for Windows, Mac and Linux. "

" 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. "

" Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization. "

" I have no evidence of any relationship between IRS and NSA. "

" In effect, you cannot stop Iraq from growing nasty bugs in the basement. You can stop them from putting operational warheads on working missiles and launching them at their neighbors. "

" In the field of biological weapons, there is almost no prospect of detecting a pathogen until it has been used in an attack. "

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

" NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally. "

" Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus. "

" Privacy and encryption work, but it's too easy to make a mistake that exposes you. "

" 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. "

" Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of shock of white hair and a slightly absent-minded way of speaking. But he's extremely sharp and very serious about power relationships. "

" Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology. "

" Some misunderstandings are hard to cure. "

" 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. "

" The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents. "

" The NSA is forbidden to 'target' American citizens, green-card holders or companies for surveillance without an individual warrant from a judge. "

" U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well. "

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