Given the volume of PC sales and the way McAfee runs its operation, I imagine there must be thousands of phantom subscribers - folks who signed up once upon a time and left the software behind two or three computers ago.

— Barton Gellman

I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.

— Barton Gellman

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

— Barton Gellman

Iraq has the most extensive petrochemical industry in the Middle East and a wealth of vaccine factories, single-cell protein research labs, medical and veterinary manufacturing centers and water treatment plants.

— Barton Gellman

Most computers today have built in backup software.

— Barton Gellman

No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.

— Barton Gellman

On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Coma and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance orders that they believed to be illegal.

— Barton Gellman

Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know your job hunting. You don't spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. Furthermore, you don't tell trade secrets to your rivals.

— Barton Gellman

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.

— Barton Gellman

Snowden grants that NSA employees by and large believe in their mission and trust the agency to handle the secrets it takes from ordinary people - deliberately, in the case of bulk records collection, and 'incidentally,' when the content of American phone calls and e-mails are swept into NSA systems along with foreign targets.

— Barton Gellman