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Bill Gertz

Bill Gertz is a national security correspondent for The Washington Times. He has been with The Times since 1985.
He is the author of eight books, four of them national best-sellers. His latest book, "Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China's Drive for Global Supremacy," reveals details about the growing threat posed by the People's Republic of China. He is also the author of the ebook "How China's Communist Party Made the World Sick."
Mr. Gertz also writes Inside the Ring, a weekly column that chronicles the U.S. national security bureaucracy.
Mr. Gertz has been a guest lecturer at the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Va.; the Central Intelligence Agency in Virginia; the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington; and the Brookings Institution in Washington. 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. He is married and has two daughters.
He can be reached at bgertz@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Bill Gertz

Rights, liberties down for 4th straight year

Political rights and civil liberties around the world declined for a fourth straight year last year, according to an annual survey of global freedom.

January 13, 2010

Beijing reports successful ‘defensive’ missile test

China conducted a successful test Monday of a missile-defense interceptor, revealing for the first time its development of an anti-missile system.

January 12, 2010

Afghanistan bombing shows perils of CIA counterspying

The recent bombing of a CIA base in Afghanistan revealed a sophisticated al Qaeda operation to plant a double agent inside Jordanian intelligence and highlighted the perennial problem of lax CIA counterspying, according to current and former U.S. intelligence officials.

January 7, 2010

Nuclear weapons review put off

The Pentagon has notified Congress that it is delaying a required report on the future of the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal because of the "complexity" of issues being addressed.

January 7, 2010

Chinese companies evade U.S. sanctions

Chinese state-owned companies sanctioned by the U.S. government for illicit arms sales to Iran evaded those restrictions by selling goods to U.S.-based companies, according to a report by a Washington research group.

January 6, 2010

Veteran China hand Lilley dies

James R. Lilley, whose six-decade government career included serving as U.S. ambassador to China during the tumult of the 1989 Beijing democracy protests and military crackdown, died Nov. 12. He was 81.

November 15, 2009

U.S. ignored warnings before deadly Afghan attack

Three intelligence reports that warned that Taliban insurgents were planning an attack just days before this month's raid on two remote military outposts in Afghanistan were dismissed as insignificant.

October 16, 2009

National security adviser says Iran advancing in making medium-range missiles

President Obama's policy shift was driven by intelligence that Iran is further along than previously thought with missiles that could strike Western Europe and the Middle East, says National Security Adviser Jim Jones.

September 20, 2009

Taliban suicide bombers stalk Afghan voters

U.S. military officials are braced for election violence in Afghanistan after Taliban insurgents threatened to unleash 20 suicide bombers in attacks during Thursday's election.

August 19, 2009

EXCLUSIVE: Pro-Israel lobby probe linked to anti-Semitism

A long-running FBI espionage probe of the pro-Israel lobby in Washington appears to have been motivated in part by anti-Semitism, says a former Pentagon official who revealed this week he had cooperated for 10 weeks with federal agents conducting the probe.

July 30, 2009

EXCLUSIVE: Defense analyst in spy case was FBI double agent

Larry Franklin, the former Pentagon analyst convicted of revealing classified information, says he worked undercover as an FBI double agent to gather information on the pro-Israel lobby in the United States.

July 29, 2009

Americans held in Iraq: FBI violated rights

For more than a month, two U.S. citizens who worked for contractors in Iraq were held in prison with no formal charges against them.

July 20, 2009

Space-defense systems secure in glass house

The transfer of strategic North American aerospace defense systems from inside the hardened complex of Colorado's Cheyenne Mountain to the basement of a glass office building has not reduced the security of the system, the commander of the U.S. Northern Command says.

July 3, 2009

U.S. ‘ready’ for N. Korean missile

U.S. missile defenses are prepared to try to knock down the last stage of a missile launch by North Korea if sensors detect the weapon threatens U.S. territory, the commander of the U.S. Northern Command says.

July 2, 2009

GERTZ: Obama’s missed opportunity in Egypt

The White House views the speech in Cairo by President Obama reaching out to Muslims as part of its aggressive effort to counter the lies of Muslim extremists while promoting American values around the world.

June 11, 2009

EXCLUSIVE: N. Korea general tied to forged $100 bills

A North Korean general who is a confidant of the country's leader, Kim Jong-il, has been identified by U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies as a key figure in the covert production and distribution of high-quality counterfeit $100 bills called supernotes, according to documents and interviews with intelligence officials.

June 2, 2009

Defense staffer charged in China spy case

A civilian employee of the Defense Department was arrested Wednesday on espionage charges that he sold classified information and passed other sensitive documents to a spy for the Chinese government who has been convicted of compromising another Pentagon employee.

May 14, 2009

China blocks U.S. from cyber warfare

China has developed more secure operating software for its tens of millions of computers and is already installing it on government and military systems, hoping to make Beijing's networks impenetrable to U.S. military and intelligence agencies.

May 12, 2009

Afghan commander’s aide blames deaths on Taliban

A top aide defended Gen. David McKiernan after his dismissal as Afghanistan theater commander Monday, saying many of the civilians who died in U.S. air strikes last week had been forced into target buildings by the Taliban and required to shoot at government forces.