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Barton Gellman

American Journalist

Born: Nov 3, 1960

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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

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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

The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan. Barton Gellman

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In late 2003, the Bush administration reversed a long-standing policy requiring agents to destroy their files on innocent American citizens, companies and residents when investigations closed. Barton Gellman

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A national security letter cannot be used to authorize eavesdropping or to read the contents of e-mail. But it does permit investigators to trace revealing paths through the private affairs of a modern digital citizen. Barton Gellman

Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving. Barton Gellman

Engineer Approach Snowden Problem-Solving Orderly Thinker

The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events. Barton Gellman

Business People Events Other Secrets Shape Dominance Information Use

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

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In computer circles, any unencrypted data is known as 'cleartext.' Barton Gellman

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The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaida, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally intense focus on one purported ally: Pakistan. Barton Gellman

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Pakistan has dozens of laboratories and production and storage sites scattered across the country. After developing warheads with highly enriched uranium, it has more recently tried to do the same with more-powerful and compact plutonium. Barton Gellman

Country Enriched Tried Plutonium Scattered More Developing Highly Same Sites Storage After Uranium Across Production Compact Pakistan Dozens Recently

Pakistan has accepted some security training from the CIA, but U.S. export restrictions and Pakistani suspicions have prevented the two countries from sharing the most sophisticated technology for safeguarding nuclear components. Barton Gellman

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There is no reliable way to calculate from the number of recorded compliance issues how many Americans have had their communications improperly collected, stored or distributed by the NSA. Barton Gellman

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The causes and severity of NSA infractions vary widely. One in 10 incidents is attributed to a typographical error in which an analyst enters an incorrect query and retrieves data about U.S phone calls or emails. Barton Gellman

Phone Analyst Emails Severity Phone Calls About Data Vary Attributed Calls Causes Error Which Incidents Widely Incorrect

At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership. Barton Gellman

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Suppose a bad guy guesses the password for your throwaway Yahoo address. Now he goes to major banking and commerce sites and looks for an account registered to that email address. When he finds one, he clicks the 'forgot my password' button and a new one is sent - to your compromised email account. Now he's in a position to do you serious harm. Barton Gellman

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Most computers today have built in backup software. Barton Gellman

Today Software Backup Computers Most Built

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

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Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash. Barton Gellman

Good You Fire Drive Lose Crash Them Much Hard Files

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

Home Travel Favor Both Computers Drives Between Office Ends Hard

It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media. Barton Gellman

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Federal prosecutors want to indict Julian Assange for making public a great many classified documents. Barton Gellman

Great Classified Federal Prosecutors Documents Making Want Public Many

The Obama administration, like those before it, promotes a disturbingly narrow interpretation of the Fourth Amendment, misapplying the facts of old analog cases to a radically different digital world. Barton Gellman

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