The Trump administration launched the cruise missile strikes in Syria, an act of war, without a U.N. resolution or Congressional authorization. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
If the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies were private companies and were chronically unable to accomplish one of their key missions,… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The Obama administration has framed its defense of the controversial bulk collection of all American phone records as necessary to prevent a… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
A key flaw of the Obama administration's approach to Afghanistan has been constantly announcing proposed withdrawal dates for U.S. forces, which has… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Bush administration officials, of course, deny that they didn't take the threat urgently enough, but there is no debating that in their… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The Bush administration's approach to the war on terror collided badly with another of its doctrines, spreading democracy in the Middle East… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Officials in the George W. Bush administration later criticized the cruise missile strikes that were ordered by President Bill Clinton in Afghanistan… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The centerpiece of the Bush administration's case for going to war in Iraq was Secretary of State Colin Powell's presentation to the… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Bin Laden studied economics and public administration before he turned to a life of jihad. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
So Pakistan is a country that I'm very fond of and have spent a lot of time, but it is a country where conspiracy… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The Trump administration launched the cruise missile strikes in Syria, an act of war, without a U.N. resolution or Congressional authorization. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The deep problems that afflict the Middle East are not easy to fix, but they must be dealt with if we are not to… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
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 Bergen Copy Share Image
Abedi appears to be one of the many thousands of Western Muslims who have embraced militant Islam, often as a way of trying to… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Trump has claimed he knows more about ISIS than America's leading generals. Clearly, this is also total nonsense; he doesn't seem to have done… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
If you don't understand what al Qaeda was trying to do on 9/11, if you don't have a sense of who Osama bin Laden… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
As early as 1993, members of bin Laden's group had been planning an attack on the American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The reality is that Trump's focus on immigrants is to misconceive of the terrorist problem that exists in the United States. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
ISIS despises the Russian government for its support of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and so it's no surprise that ISIS began targeting Russia… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The Sunni militants that make up ISIS are not the underlying problem in Syria and Iraq, but rather they are a symptom of other… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Keeping a relatively small, predominantly U.S. Special Forces presence in Afghanistan to continue to train the Afghan army past December 2016 is a wise… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
