Bill Gertz

July 17, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

The war in cyberspace

America’s top spy is warning you

February 5, 2013 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross The Globe and Mail

Homegrown Terror is Real, But You Won’t Find It Online

Homegrown terrorism has become a topic of discussion in both Canada and the United States. A study by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service...

October 22, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

The Joint Iran and al-Qaida Operation Declares War

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s comparison between al-Qaida and Iran during his September 27 address to the UN has garnered greater urgency since the US Treasury department on Thursday...

June 14, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Abu Zubaydah and Iran

At the Washington Free Beacon, Bill Gertz has a piece about Jose Rodriguez, the former chief of the CIA’s Counte...

August 3, 2011 |

‘Representing’ Al-Qaeda

Bravely entering the lion’s den — delivering a speech in praise of left-wing, “pro bono” lawyering to a group of left-wing, pro bono lawyers — Attorney General Eric...

June 15, 2011 | Human Events

The CIA and Al-Qaeda

In intelligence it’s not so much what you don’t know as what you won’t know. Al Qaeda was initially formed in 1988, when the Soviet Union announced the humiliating with...

June 13, 2011 |

Questions for the Pentagon: Who is Hesham Islam?

In the sorry tradition of shooting the messenger, the Pentagon is cashiering its top expert on Islamist doctrine, Stephen Coughlin. Some members of Congress are now contemplating hearings to ask...

December 20, 2010 | National Review Online |

Advise, Don’t Consent

President Obama is writing to the wrong people, and those wrong people are hopelessly confused about his power and their own. This is how bad agreements are born. Senate Republicans coul...

December 13, 2010 | Rebeccah Heinrichs The Daily Caller |

The Bipartisan Push for Missile Defense

The coming Congress will bring new opportunity for bipartisan consensus on a traditionally contentious policy matter — advancing missile defense. On November 20th at the Lisbon summit, NATO...

December 4, 2010 | National Review Online |

Missile Malpractice

Show me where in the Constitution it says the government — created by the people in order to serve the people — is empowered to mandate that those selfsame people buy health insurance...

November 2, 2010 |

More Rocket, Less Docket

‘We need to bring him to justice as soon as we can.” In a Fox News interview Sunday, that was John Brennan, President Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser, talking about Ibrahim...

June 17, 2010 | Clifford D. May |

We Link, You Decide

The Defense Department’s Michele Flournoy and Ashton B. Carter argue here that missile defense is essential and that the Obama administration is not negotiating with Russia to limit our opt...

March 22, 2010 |

Stalking the CIA

Co-Authored with Debra Burlingame Last week, Bill Gertz of the Washington Times broke news of a fight between the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of Justice. The...

January 25, 2008 |

Questions for the Pentagon: Who is Hesham Islam?

In the sorry tradition of shooting the messenger, the Pentagon is cashiering its top expert on Islamist doctrine, Stephen Coughlin. Some members of Congress are now contem...

July 17, 2005 |

Did the CIA “Out” Valerie Plame?

What the mainstream media tells the court ... but won't tell you.

October 27, 2004 | Clifford D. May |

The Plot Thickens

As Kathryn has pointed out, it was heartening that the Washington Post today was willing to follow the trail where NRO yesterday suggested it leads: Back to U.N. official Mohammed El Baradei, who...