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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

FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok agreed to avoid treating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton harshly about her private email system. (Associated Press photographs)

Inside the Ring: Details of FBI counterspy bias revealed

Former FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok agreed to avoid treating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton harshly in a 2016 interrogation about her private email system, over concerns Mrs. Clinton might retaliate after becoming president.

November 27, 2019
This undated file photo provided by the Alexandria Sheriff's Office shows Jerry Chun Shing Lee. The former CIA officer who pleaded guilty to an espionage conspiracy with China could be facing more than two decades in prison. Fifty-five-year-old Lee is scheduled for sentencing Friday, Nov. 22, 2019, in federal court in Alexandria, Va. (Alexandria Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

Ex-CIA operative gets 19 years for China espionage

A former CIA case officer who spied for China was sentenced to 19 years in prison on Friday in a case U.S. officials say involved the loss of more than two dozen recruited CIA agents in China.

November 22, 2019
Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has threatened to pull out of the 2015 nuclear accord if Tehran is unable to achieve sufficient economic benefits. (Associated Press/File)

DIA on Iran nuclear program

A Defense Intelligence Agency report made public this week concludes that Iran's government remains prepared to pursue nuclear weapons and missiles to deliver them.

November 20, 2019
People stand watch on a road decorated with bricks set by Pro-democracy protesters outside the campus of the Hong Kong Baptist University in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019. University students from mainland China and Taiwan are fleeing Hong Kong, while those from three Scandinavian countries have been moved or urged to leave as college campuses become the latest battleground in the city's 5-month-long anti-government unrest. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

White House stays low-key as Hong Kong unrest grows

The Trump administration and Congress are avoiding harsh rhetoric in backing pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong that have thrown the former British colony into chaos and unnerved the Communist government in Beijing.

November 13, 2019
China has an estimated 12,000 PLA troops in Hong Kong, according to Reuters, and massed additional troops and military vehicles in nearby Shenzhen, where paramilitary police in riot gear are training. Beijing officials were notified in stark terms that any repeat of the use of military forces as in the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre would spell the end of efforts to seek a resolution of the U.S.-Chinese trade war. (Associated Press/File)

U.S. warns China on Hong Kong, trade talks

The Trump administration has put China on notice that any large-scale crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong would spell the end of trade negotiations.

October 30, 2019
With Russia building new cruise missiles and dealing with the Skyfall disaster, the State Department was engaging in "good old clientitis" — the tendency of government officials to treat foreign officials they deal with as clients and orient policies in ways that would not upset relations. (Associated Press/File)

U.S. blocked Russia Skyfall nuclear accident details

Pro-arms-control officials in the State Department knew for weeks that the deadly nuclear accident in Russia in August involved the Skyfall nuclear-powered cruise missile but held up releasing the information, according to Trump administration officials.

October 23, 2019
In this grab taken from a footage provided by the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM press service, people gather for the funerals of five Russian nuclear engineers killed by a rocket explosion in Sarov, the closed city, located 370 kilometers (230 miles) east of Moscow, Monday, Aug. 12, 2019. Thousands of people have attended the burial of five Russian nuclear engineers killed by an explosion during tests of a new rocket. The engineers, who died on Thursday, were laid to rest Monday in the city of Sarov that hosts Russias main nuclear weapons research center. (Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM via AP)

Skyfall nuclear cruise missile explosion covered up by Russia

Russia covered up the deadly nuclear reactor explosion in August during the salvage at sea of one of Vladimir Putin's new superweapons, a nuclear-powered cruise missile called Skyfall, a senior State Department official disclosed.

October 20, 2019
Chinese military vehicles carrying DF-17 ballistic missiles rolled through Beijing on Tuesday in a parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Communist Party power. (Associated Press)

China shows DF-17 hypersonic missile

China's large-scale military parade this week featured an array of high-technology arms, but the most significant reveal was a hypersonic missile called the DF-17.

October 2, 2019