Peter Bergen

CNN Security Analyst Peter Bergen said Bergdahl has likely been moved from Afghanistan to Pakistan -- a pattern he has seen before. "We've seen this pattern ...

As President Obama awaits formal recommendations this month on issues surrounding the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, it is crucial that policymakers and the public have an accurate picture of the threat to the United States posed by those detainees already released.

As President Obama receives formal recommendations in the coming months on issues surrounding the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, it is crucial that policymakers and the public have an accurate picture of the threat to the United States posed by those detainees already released. Contrary to recent assertions that one in seven, or 14 percent, of the former prisoners had "returned to the battlefield," our analysis of Pentagon reports, news stories, and other public records indicates that the number who were confirmed or suspected to… more

"They're back and can do these multiple attacks," Peter Bergen, an analyst with CNN, told the network. Indonesia had not had a major terrorist attack for ...

If the Iraq War was the defining conflict of the George W. Bush administration, the war in Afghanistan appears destined to be Barack Obama's. During last year's campaign, Obama made it clear that he considered the Afghan-Pakistani border the central front in the war against terrorism. As president, he has taken ownership of the Afghan conflict by appointing new leadership to oversee the war and embarking on a new strategy, including the deployment of some 70,000 American soldiers by year's end and a push for billions of… more

Peter Bergen, an expert on intelligence at the New America Foundation, said that the CIA is not likely to be put through the wringer in quite the way it was in the 1970s when senator Frank Church's committee laid bare an array of illegal activities. But the agency will have to account for recent actions.

Peter Bergen, a senior security analyst at the New America Foundation, said the secret operation must have gone further than that to have created such a ...

Indeed, the number of "spies" al Qaeda (and their Taliban allies) have killed has risen dramatically in the past 10 months, says Peter Bergen, a counter-terrorism expert at the New America Foundation.

Throughout his campaign last year, President Barack Obama said repeatedly that the real central front of the war against terrorists was on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. And now he is living up to his campaign promise to roll back the Taliban and al-Qaeda with significant resources. By the end of the year there will be some 70,000 American soldiers in Afghanistan, and the Obama administration is pushing for billions of dollars in additional aid to both Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Somalia is not new territory for al Qaeda, according to CNN's terrorism analyst Peter Bergen.

"Al Qaeda was running training camps in Somalia in the early and mid-1990s," he said. "If this is now coming back, this is something that al Qaeda has already done and it's worrisome for the future...