William D. Gertz (born March 28, 1952)[Bill Gertz' Twitter on March 28, 2014: "Today's my birthday."] is an American editor, columnist and reporter for The Washington Times. He is the author of eight books.
Biography Gertz has been a media fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University.Bill Gertz, U.S. National Security World Tribune
In 2008, Gertz was subpoenaed to the Santa Ana, California federal court to testify in the case of Chi Mak, who was convicted of providing United States Navy technology to China. Gertz refused to answer questions about his sources, citing the Fifth Amendment.Judge declines to order reporter to reveal sources Los Angeles Times July 25, 2008
Gertz was a senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon until October 2019, when he was fired upon the discovery of "a previously undisclosed financial transaction."The Free Beacon Fired A Top Reporter For A “Financial Transaction” With Someone He Frequently Covered Buzzfeed News, October 12, 2019] Gertz had taken a US$100,000 loan from Guo Wengui, whom Gertz called a "leading Chinese dissident" in his reports.How a Tycoon Linked to Chinese Intelligence Became a Darling of Trump Republicans The New Yorker, October 17, 2022A Conservative Journalist Admitted To Taking $100,000 From A Financier Connected To A Controversial Chinese Billionaire Buzzfeed News April 24, 2020 Gertz later rejoined The Washington Times full time.
Writings His 2002 book, Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to Sept. 11, examined the activities of United States intelligence agencies prior to the 2001 terrorist attacks.A Catastrophic Failure To Think the Unthinkable The New York Times November 20, 2002 His 2008 book, The Failure Factory: How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and Big Government Republicans Are Undermining America's Security and Leading Us to War, said that many federal bureaucrats hold liberal views on foreign policy.Where's the Real Power in Washington? New Book Claims It's Not in the Oval Office Fox News, October 13, 2008
Books Betrayal: How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security (1999) The China Threat: How the People's Republic Targets America (2000) Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11 (2002) Treachery: How America’s Friends and Foes Are Secretly Arming Our Enemies (2004) Enemies: How America's Foes Steal Our Vital Secrets – And How We Let It Happen (2006) The Failure Factory: How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and Big Government Republicans Are Undermining America's Security and Leading Us to War (2008) iWar: War and Peace in the Information Age (2017) Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China's Drive for Global Supremacy (2019)
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External links
Official website