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. Barton Gellman Read Quote
Cheney was among the best secretaries of defence the country has ever had. He was a very effective White House chief of staff. He did not make many enemies, and he had the ability to persuade people with that soft tone and very reasonable style of his. He’s always been exceptionally good as the right-hand man. Barton Gellman Read Quote
I don’t think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process. Barton Gellman Read Quote
No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure. Barton Gellman Read Quote
Ecuador has never stated flatly that it would give asylum to Edward Snowden. Barton Gellman Read Quote
There’s a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s. Barton Gellman Read Quote
The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose ‘family values’ agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin. Barton Gellman Read Quote
Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few. Barton Gellman Read Quote
Throughout the early and mid-1990s, the Clinton administration debated the merits of paying for AIDS testing and counseling of vulnerable populations overseas. Barton Gellman Read Quote
In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available – AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition. Barton Gellman Read Quote
