Bill Gertz bio

1. Name: Bill Gertz
2. Title: Bill Gertz co-writes a weekly column called “Inside the Ring,” covering the Pentagon and national security issues
3. Biography: Bill Gertz co-writes a weekly column called “Inside the Ring,” covering the Pentagon and national security issues. The author of over a half dozen books, Gertz also writes articles for the National Review and The Weekly Standard.

He delivers speeches around the world on intelligence and international security issues and has been a guest lecturer on such important topics as national security, defense and media issues at the CIA, the FBI National Academy, and the National Defense University. Gertz has appeared on several television and talk radio programs, including This Week, Hannity & Colmes, The O’Reilly Factor, and The Rush Limbaugh Show, among many others.

In 1999, Gertz was the recipient of the Western Journalism Center award for investigative journalism. He has also been a Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace.

4. Involvement/ Affiliations:
  • Geopolitics Editor and Columnist, The Washington Times, 1985-present
  • Fellow, Hoover Institute, Stanford University
5. Education:
  • Journalism, George Washington University, year unknown
  • Attended Washington College, year unknown
6. Published Works:
  • The Failure Factory: How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and Big Government Republicans Are Undermining America’s Security and Leading Us to War, 2008
  • Enemies: How America’s Foes Steal Our Vital Secrets–And How We Let It Happen, 2006
  • Treachery: How America’s Friends And Foes Are Secretly Arming Our Enemies, 2004
  • Breakdown: How America’s Intelligence Failures Led to September 11, 2002
  • The China Threat: How the People’s Republic Targets America, 2000
  • Betrayal: How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security, 1999
7. Contact info: Bill Gertz, Geopolitical editor & columnist
The Washington Times
Phone: (202) 636-3274
Website: http://www.gertzfile.com