“In short, the hunt for bin Laden could not have been accomplished with...” — Peter Bergen Quote

“In short, the hunt for bin Laden could not have been accomplished without every form of American intelligence-gathering.”

“President Obama and a small team of senior national security officials were in the unusual position of acting as al-Awlaki's jury, judges, and de facto executioners.”

“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.”

“Bin Laden was intelligent, well-informed, and low key. The people around him treated him with great deference, calling him 'sheikh,' a term of respect.”

“I don't think there's any question that America is safer as a result of the bin Laden operation.”

“I was the only outsider to visit the Abbottabad compound where bin Laden lived before the Pakistani military demolished it.”