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It's definitely longer than the buzz cut you see most of the time in the federal government. I would pale in comparison to rock and rollers with my haircut. I would be a lightweight.

~Bart Chilton

Topics: Buzz Comparison Cut Definitely Federal Federal Government Government Haircut Lightweight Longer Most Pale Rock See Than Time Would You

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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.

~Barton Gellman

Topics: Amendment Circles Federal Federal Government Fraud Government Grievance Holds Income Income Tax Leading Made Militia Often Power Said Tax Through Times Which Wholesale

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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.

~Barton Gellman

Topics: Account Government Highest Holding Mission News Organization Our Own Power Use View

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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

Topics: Any Anybody Conceptual Documents Doubt Fact Focus Government Guides Itself Limitations Limited Look Most One Or Two Power Practical Primarily Reins Resources Strategy Things Time Two Who World Worldview You

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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

Topics: Able Anybody Anything Been Fact Government Me Snowden Talked Tell U.s. Government

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The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.

~Barton Gellman

Topics: Authorities Branch Different Each Government Legal Reporting Requirements Nsa

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Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.

~Barton Gellman

Topics: Backup Both Both Ways Cloud Confidential Cut Deliberate Disaster Doing Else Entrust Exposure Files Get Government Hands Increases Latter Potential Recovery Secrets Security Services Somebody Surveillance Terms Ways You Your

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Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.

~Barton Gellman

Topics: Activists Beyond Control Demonstrating Geeks Government Government Control Powers Reach Standing Together

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Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.

~Barton Gellman

Topics: Companies Demands Ever Government Information Law Obey Often Receive Room Scarcely Use

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Among all the upheavals of war with al Qaeda, the surest indicator of the historic stakes is the ongoing rotation of top U.S. government managers - scores at a time - into a bunker deep underground and far from Washington.

~Barton Gellman

Topics: Al Among Bunker Deep Far Government Historic Indicator Managers Ongoing Rotation Scores Stakes Surest Time Top Underground U.s. Government War Washington Qaeda

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