Barton Gellman to Write a Book about Government Surveillance

Barton Gellman, the Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative journalist, is writing a book about the vast expansion of government surveillance that occurred after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Penguin Press announced on Thursday. Mr. Gellman is a contributing editor at large for Time magazine and a former Washington Post reporter. No title or release date was available.

The announcement of the book comes on the heels of recent reports that the government has been compiling a database of Americans’ phone calls and an article co-written by Mr. Gellman for The Post that revealed a secret Internet surveillance program called Prism.

Scott Moyers, publisher of the Penguin Press, said, “I can’t think of another journalist who has reported on this issue more incisively over a longer period of time than Barton Gellman. The Edward Snowden story is just the tip of the iceberg, as we all will soon see.”

Mr. Gellman won a Pulitzer Prize and a George Polk Award for a series of articles he wrote with Jo Becker about Vice President Dick Cheney for The Post. The articles were the basis for a best-selling book, “Angler.”