Quotes by Peter L. Bergen

“We climbed the stairs to the third floor, where Osama bin Laden died early in the morning of May 2, 2011.”

“The dirty little secret of the intelligence world is that much of what you really need to know isn't exactly a secret anyway.”

“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 th...”

“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 imm...”

“Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the two brothers who carried out the marathon bombing, was a non-practicing Muslim who only became an Islamist militant once his dreams of becoming an Olympic boxer faded....”

“Syria is attracting a lot more Westerners than the Iraq War ever did because it's the perfect Sunni jihad.”

“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.”