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Bill Gertz is a defense and national
security reporter, and columnist, for The Washington Times, a position
he has held since 1985. He is the author of six books, four of which were
national bestsellers. His 1999 book, “Betrayal: How the Clinton Administration
Undermined American Security,” (Regnery, May 1999) was on the New York
Times bestseller list for several weeks. His second book, “The China
Threat: How the People's Republic Targets America,” (Regnery) was released in
November 2000. His book, "Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures
Led to September 11," was published in August 2002 and was a national
bestseller. Bill wrote "Treachery: How America's Friends And Foes Are Secretly Arming Our Enemies," in 2005, a candid look at the growing problem of arms proliferation. The book was a national bestseller. In 2006, his fifth book was published. "Enemies: How America's Foes Steal Our Vital Secrets - And How We Let It Happen," was a bestseller and is a critical look at recent spy cases and counterintelligence failures. It also calls for using aggressive counterintelligence techniques to stop Islamist extremists in the global war on terrorism. His latest book, "The Failure
Factory: How Unelected Bureaucrats; Liberal Democrats and Big Government
Republicans Are Undermining America's Security and Leading Us to War," was published in September 2008. It is a critical look
at the problem of an out-of-control government bureaucracy. Bill writes a weekly column called Inside
the Ring, a chronicle about the ups and downs of the U.S. national security
bureaucracy. He also has written articles for National Review, The Weekly
Standard and Air Force Magazine. Bill also has been a media fellow
at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford
University, California. Bill has an international reputation. Vyachaslav
Trubnikov, head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, called him a
"tool of the CIA" after he wrote an article exposing Russian
intelligence operations in the Balkans. A senior CIA official once threatened
to have a cruise missile fired at his desk at The Washington Times
after he wrote a column critical of the CIA's analysis of China. China's
communist government also has criticized him for his news reports exposing
China's weapons and missile sales to rogues states, accusing him of
"spreading lies about China." The state-run Xinhua news agency in
2006 identified Bill as the No. 1 "anti-China expert" in the world.
Bill insists he is very much pro-China - pro-Chinese people and opposed to
the communist system. U.S. State Department official Nicholas Burns,
frustrated by Bill's prolific news reporting on internal information about
U.S. national security and foreign affairs, only half-joking once compared
him to Moamar Gadafi and Saddam Hussein. Former CIA Director R. James Woolsey stated:
“When I was DCI [Director of Central Intelligence], Bill used to drive me
crazy because I couldn’t figure out where the leaks were coming from. Now
that I’ve been outside for two years, I read him religiously to find out
what’s going on.” Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson told the
author: "We talk about your stories at Cabinet meetings.” Defense
Secretary William S. Cohen once remarked to a Chinese general that Bill
"has access to more intelligence information than anyone I know."
Senior CIA officials, too, have criticized him during closed hearings before
Congress regarding his news reporting based on extraordinary access to
classified information. Former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld
once told him: "You are drilling holes in the Pentagon and sucking out
information." Among his major newspaper exclusives were
reports on how an internal State Department advisory panel report warning of
the growing strategic problem of China and the need to develop new weapons to
counter and deter it. He also reported first on a Chinese submarine secretly
sailing undetected within 5 miles of the U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk in
October 2006, how the Pentagon activated its missile defense system in June
2006 in preparation for the possible shoot-down of a North Korean missile
launch; China's deployment of a new class of attack submarines; details of
Russia's covert involvement in removing weapons from Saddam Hussein's Iraq;
and details of North Korean government involvement in counterfeiting U.S.
currency. Other exclusives have included reports that
North Korea test fired a new 100-mile range cruise missile, and how French
and U.S. companies violated U.S. export rules by selling oil-related
equipment to Iran. He also was the first to disclose how China
is building up short-range missiles opposite Taiwan, and how China had
exported ballistic missile technology to Pakistan, a disclosure that led to
the imposition of U.S. economic sanctions against China and Pakistan. He also
was the first to report that the U.S. National Security Agency issued a
top-secret intelligence report warning of a terrorist attack in Yemen - hours
after terrorists attacked the guided missile destroyer USS Cole in Aden
harbor. Bill has been a guest lecturer at the FBI
National Academy in Quantico, Va.; the Central Intelligence Agency; the
National Defense University at Fort McNair, Washington, DC; and the Brookings
Institution, Washington, D.C. He has participated in the National Security
Studies Program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced
International Studies and Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship
and Public Affairs. He studied English literature at Washington
College in Chestertown, Md., and journalism at George Washington University,
Washington, D.C. In September 1999, Bill was awarded the Western Journalism
Center award for investigative journalism. The United States Business and
Industrial Council awarded him the "Defender of the National Interest
Award" in June 1998, and in 1997 he was recognized by The Washington
Times for excellence in achievement. |
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