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Bill Gertz

bgertz@washingtontimes.com

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

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.

May 12, 2009

EXCLUSIVE: Obama OK’d 2 SEAL teams for pirates

President Obama dispatched two teams of Navy commandos to carry out last week's rescue of a captain held hostage by Somali pirates but left the operational details and rules of engagement to the military.

April 22, 2009

Pentagon: Beijing boosts cyberwarfare

China is continuing a large-scale military buildup of high-tech forces that includes "disruptive" anti-satellite missiles, new strategic forces, and computer attack weapons, the Pentagon's annual report to Congress on the Chinese military says.

March 26, 2009

Chinese spy who defected tells all

A veteran Chinese intelligence officer who defected to the United States says that his country's civilian spy service spends most of its time trying to steal secrets overseas but also works to bolster Beijing's Communist Party rule by repressing religious and political dissent internally.

March 19, 2009

EXCLUSIVE: Commerce pick tied to China cash

Commerce Secretary nominee Gary Locke has performed legal work for firms doing business with Beijing and was forced to refund several political donations received from key figures in a Chinese influence-buying probe.

March 18, 2009

U.S. protests China’s ship harassment

Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair told a Senate hearing Tuesday that China's military is increasing harassment of U.S. Navy survey ships, activities viewed by U.S. intelligence as the most aggressive since 2001, when a Chinese jet flew into a U.S. EP-3 surveillance plane and set off an international crisis.

March 11, 2009

Blair: China gets ‘more aggressive’ against U.S. ships

UPDATED: Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair told a Senate hearing Tuesday that China's military is increasing harassment of Navy survey ships, activities viewed by U.S. intelligence as the most aggressive since 2001, when a Chinese jet flew into a U.S. EP-3 surveillance plane and set off an international crisis.

March 11, 2009

EXCLUSIVE: Spy agency focus of shakeup

Two senior U.S. counterintelligence officials have left positions inside the agency that coordinates America's efforts to root out foreign spies after an inspector general review identified management problems, government officials said.

February 19, 2009

EXCLUSIVE: Air Force fails new nuclear reviews

Air Force nuclear units have failed two inspections in the past three months, providing fresh evidence that the military service that jarred the world in 2007 by mistakenly transporting live nuclear weapons across the United States continues to suffer lapses in its management of intercontinental ballistic missiles.

February 4, 2009

Gen. David Baker dies at 62

Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. David E. Baker, a combat fighter pilot and former Vietnam War prisoner of war, died Thursday of congestive heart failure. He was 62.

January 31, 2009

EXCLUSIVE: Obama wants Bush war team to stay

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is asking many of the Bush administration's 250 Pentagon political appointees to remain on the job until the incoming Obama administration finds replacements -- a move designed to prevent a leadership vacuum with U.S. troops engaged in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

December 23, 2008

Obama wants Bush war team to stay

EXCLUSIVE: Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has asked most Bush administration political appointees — except those targeted for dismissal — to stay on in the Pentagon until replaced by the Obama administration in the coming months.

December 22, 2008