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Peter Bergen, CNN's national security analyst, said neither the United States nor the Taliban appear to be ready for negotiations. "The Taliban believe they may be winning in Afghanistan, and they also are confident that they are not losing, ...

CNN terrorism analyst Peter Bergen suggested that is a reflection of al Qaeda's recent losses as a result of US missile strikes along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. "There were three in 2007 and 34 in 2008 by my count," Bergen said. ...

... designed to provide inadequate retirement income for the average worker," says University of California Berkeley political scientist Jacob Hacker. ...

... said Peter Bergen, a fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington and author of "The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader. ...

CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen said a Pakistani official told him 20000 soldiers had been moved from the Afghanistan border toward the Indian ...

BLITZER: And they’ve also been accused of having links, Peter Bergen, to al Qaeda itself. And there have been suggestions over the years. ...

LEN NICHOLS, NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION: When they promised retiree health a long time ago they had a 70 percent market share nationwide. It appeared they were always going to grow. It appeared they were always going to have more workers than they do retirees. Today, there are twice as many retirees in their health care plan as there are workers. That is a fundamental problem. LINK to transcript

PETER BERGEN, CNN SECURITY ANALYST: Well, of late, Anderson, both Ayman al-Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden, obviously, they've got a lot of time on their hands, sitting around, trying to avoid being killed by a Hellfire missile strike. But in between those, they're doing a lot of reading.

And they're reading Noam Chomsky, and they're reading Malcolm X, because in recent statements from both of al Qaeda's leaders, they've mentioned these books. Probably because of the influence of an American member… more

PETER BERGEN, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST: The likelihood of finding Osama bin Laden in the next several years either McCain or Obama administration is low. Given the fact that the United States has not found him in the last seven years, why is that he would magically make the set of mistakes? STARR: And General Petraeus about to take over as top U.S. commander in the region says that bin Laden still is a priority. GEN. DAVID PETRAEUS,… more

ALINA CHO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Nearly $1 trillion in new spending? That's a lot of money. Is it true? Well, you really have to break down the statement. Let's take a look at a key word in McCain's statement. He said Obama proposed more than $860 billion in new spending. The key word being "new" not "spending with cuts in other areas," but new spending. The McCain campaign simply added up the cost of programs that Obama has talked about. But the Obama… more