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Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.

From Barton Gellman

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.

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

From Barton Gellman

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

From Barton Gellman

Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?

From Barton Gellman

In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.

From Barton Gellman

Palestinians have had to live for a long time with the fact that Israelis had power over them in their everyday lives.

From Barton Gellman

All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.

From Barton Gellman

Doctrines don't govern policy. They provide a conceptual framework by which policymakers approach their decisions. But there is no such thing as a doctrine that controls policy in every way.

From Barton Gellman

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.

From Barton Gellman

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