If the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies were private companies and were chronically unable to accomplish one of their key missions, their shareholders would have long ago revolted, fired their management, and their stock would be trading at values near zero. -Peter L. Bergen Intelligence
Syria is attracting a lot more Westerners than the Iraq War ever did because it's the perfect Sunni jihad. -Peter L. Bergen War
The Japanese scored an important victory at Pearl Harbor, but the attack pulled the United States into World War II, and four years later, Japan was in ruins, utterly defeated. -Peter L. Bergen War
We climbed the stairs to the third floor, where Osama bin Laden died early in the morning of May 2, 2011. -Peter L. Bergen Morning
The dirty little secret of the intelligence world is that much of what you really need to know isn't exactly a secret anyway. -Peter L. Bergen Intelligence
Every lethal terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11 has been carried out by an American citizen or a legal permanent resident, not by recent immigrants or by refugees. So tamping down immigration won't fix the real issue, which is 'homegrown' terrorism. -Peter L. Bergen Legal
