True net-heads sometimes resort to punctuation cartoons to get around the absence of inflection. Barton Gellman Read Quote
As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of communications on a planetary scale. Barton Gellman Read Quote
Palestinians have had to live for a long time with the fact that Israelis had power over them in their everyday lives. Barton Gellman Read Quote
Doctrines don’t govern policy. They provide a conceptual framework by which policymakers approach their decisions. But there is no such thing as a doctrine that controls policy in every way. Barton Gellman Read Quote
Clinton saw himself much more as the steward of alliances and of consensus that moved in the right direction. He didn’t see himself as someone who could change the overall thrust, I think, of global policy. Barton Gellman Read Quote
I doubt there’s any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs – the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited. Barton Gellman Read Quote
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 able to rebut. Barton Gellman Read Quote
Snowden has been very sparing about discussing his early life or his personal life. Barton Gellman Read Quote
