Bill Gertz Author of Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11 The China Threat Betrayal: How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security Click here to view details about Breakdown Bill Gertz is an internationally recognized newspaper reporter who has specialized in writing major stories on a wide variety of defense, intelligence, and international security issues. A veteran defense writer who specializes in coming up with inside stories, often based on classified documents, he is widely viewed as one of the best reporters in his field. His sources within government are extensive. Bill has broken a number of stories with international implications. As former CIA Director R. James Woolsey put it, “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.” And White House spokesman Michael McCurry once called the author “a straight shooter” who has written “more interesting reporting on national security than anybody on the beat.” Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh also has described Bill as “one of the best national security reporters in the country” who has produced more scoops exposing the Clinton administration’s foreign and defense policy failures than any other reporter. Born on Long Island in 1952, Bill is currently the defense and national security reporter of The Washington Times, a position he has held for the past 14 years. Abroad, Bill has been subjected to vitriolic verbal attacks by no less than the chief of Russian SVR foreign intelligence service, successor to the KGB. SVR Director Vyacheslav Trubnikov called him a “tool” of the CIA after he disclosed Russian spying in the Balkans. Communist China’s Deputy Foreign Minister Li Zhoxing, now Beijing’s ambassador to Washington, has denounced Bill for exposing China’s international nuclear technology and missile sales. Russia’s Foreign Ministry has filed at least two formal diplomatic protest notes to the U.S. government over Gertz stories. Bill has written numerous articles for journals and magazines, including National Review, The Weekly Standard, and Air Force Magazine. He has lectured on defense, national security, and media issues at the Defense Department’s National Security Leadership Program, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia, the National Defense University in Washington, DC, and at the CIA in Virginia. Click here to view details about Breakdown Price: $19.95 - Click here to order: