Free Beacon Bill Gertz

Bill Gertz was senior editor of the Washington Free Beacon.

Former director of national intelligence James Clapper and former U.S. deputy attorney general Sally Yates testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism
National Security

Yates Feared Russian Blackmail of Flynn

Clapper: Trump aide unmasked in intel report

Bill Gertz
May 9, 2017
This undated picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on April 26, 2017 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un attending the combined fire demonstration of the services of the Korean People's Army in celebration
A picture taken on April 12, 2016 shows part of the Atos designed supercomputer
White House
National Security

Pentagon Pulls Security Clearance of Trump White House Aide

Political retribution by anti-Trump bureaucrats suspected

Bill Gertz
May 4, 2017
This undated picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on April 26, 2017 shows the combined fire demonstration of the services of the Korean People's Army
National Security

US Commandos Set to Counter North Korean Nuclear Sites

Neutralizing Pyongyang's nuclear, chemical arms warfighting priority, SOCOM commander says

Bill Gertz
May 3, 2017
Ben Rhodes, Michael Flynn
National Security

White House Clearance Process Increasingly Politicized

Bureaucrats use access to secrets to block Trump aides

Bill Gertz
May 1, 2017
U.S. Capitol
National Security

America Is Losing the Cyber
Information War

New strategies, tactics needed to fight influence, propaganda warfare threats, Senate told

Bill Gertz
April 28, 2017
Susan Rice /
Russian President Vladimir Putin
National Security

Russia Steps Up Anti-U.S. Military Propaganda

Fake stories target troops, exercises in E. Europe

Bill Gertz
April 27, 2017
Senators Orin Hatch and Rob Portman are seen on West Executive Drive after a briefing for US senators on the situation in North Korea in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building
National Security

Senators Told North Korea Nuclear Threat Is Urgent

Rare White House session hears from Mattis, Tillerson, Coats, Dunford

Bill Gertz
April 26, 2017