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Bergen: Well, look. I think the point of the book wasn't an assessment of how well the CIA did before 9/11 as you say, but the fact is, the CIA did pretty well before 9/11.
Bergen: I did. Wikileaks is an incredibly useful resource for this kind of reporting because we have the-- There's a lot of material on Wikileaks which is not significant, but
Bergen: The CIA was asking a lot of the same questions about "Okay, what is the profile of Osama bin Laden?" Because most fugitives don't try to take three wives and a dozen
Bergen: He stopped using his cell phone. He stopped using his-- Cell phones were not in existence in Afghanistan at the time. He stopped using his satellite phone probably
Bergen: In a way, he became a prisoner. He created his own prison. It meant that it was very hard to find him, but also, when the day came, the night came, the SEALs were
Bergen: Qahtani is really an interesting case because he appears, from what we can tell, to be the first person to finger Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti as a reasonably significant
Bergen: I went into it thinking the answer was likely to be kinda gray, like a lot of things in life. And the answer is, it is kinda gray It's not one of these perfect "One group
Bergen: That's an interesting question. That's at a level above my pay grade-- presenter: Right, I know, I know. I didn't expect you to have to make that comment.
Bergen: What I say in the piece, in the Times, was, and I didn't actually fully develop this, but this is the first major American political figure, when I say major, really
Bergen: Indeed. Well, this is a really interesting thing about the book, is that of system, I quote Tom Donilon, the National Security Advisor. "At the end of the day, somebody has to go
Bergen: Lawyerly. She really examined the pros and cons. And people didn't know where she was going to go. In the end, she said, "You should do the raid." Leon Panetta, the
Bergen: I would love to have-- I asked for an interview with him and didn't get one.
Bergen: They wouldn't talk to me, so that's really easy.
Bergen: Do you think Al Pacino will play him, or?
Bergen: I think we know what it meant to bin Laden. Bin Laden released around 30 audiotapes and videotapes after 9/11, and he would comment on the matters of the most minor interest
Bergen: Yeah, I could whisper it, but I think it would be a waste of breath because I think no--. Politicians are politicians because they want--. This is not even a criticism
Bergen: The way I would answer that, Christmas Day 2009. If that plane had blown up over Detroit with 300 Americans on board, carried live on CNN, the Obama presidency would have
Bergen: I'm sure we don't. There are 860,000 Americans with top secret clearances. Not secret, top secret. I don't think they all need them, somehow. Having a certain amount
Bergen: On the question of informations publicly available, obviously I'm a journalist, so I'm in favor of as much publicly available information. Obviously at Google, which is--.
Bergen: I don't see the connection.
Bergen: Right. That's a fair enough question. Why are we in Afghanistan. What is the strategy?
Bergen: I say in the book. There was a plan, if we captured bin Laden, to take him to Bagram Air Force Base and then put him on a plane to the USS Carl Vinson, which is a huge warship,
Bergen: One of the interesting things about these documents is a question that I've always had about bin Laden, which is he claims he's a defender of Muslims, yet a lot of his victims
Bergen, they're building the game structure, huge 4x4x4 plexiglass cube for me so I can come and play with uh
Berger um ruled on this so he wrote the opinion in which the Supreme Court affirmed The Endangered Species Act many years ago and he said you know a
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of Bergen-Belsen. They became exchange Jews because before the Nazis took over Amsterdam, he had gotten them
Jonah Berger-- have looked at what makes people share content online.
And Berger, if I'm not mistaken was a communist , or at least a socialist.
Peter Bergen: Thank you everybody for coming. I know you have busy lives. Thank you, Karen, for doing this, and thank you, Google, for organizing this. Why did it take so long?
what Berger calls a "category mistake." Modernity doesn't so much secularize as it pluralizes, right? And, indeed, what numbers show right now is that there's, there's religion, as
Peter Berger says, "The world is as religious as it ever was; perhaps more furiously religious than ever." Right? Sure, there's a growth in people who call themselves nonbelievers,
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It was actually Tim Bergen, who I never met-- but it was his books that got me into animal behavior.
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heard actually was in Bergen in Norway where a tourist stops a little kid and says does it always rain here and the
growing up in Bergenfield with the music of Elvis Presley, The Ventures, and the Beatles.
My name is Jonah Berger.
I've read Berger, Clement Greenberg, all the criticisms.
would pick Peter Bergen. And if you would pick the next project for Peter, it would have been this book. He's written many books about bin Laden, about al Qaeda. He's considered
it's not-- Bergen: I think this will be one of these things like the Cuban Missile Crisis that historians will be examining it as a classic case study about presidential decision-making.
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I'm Jonah Berger, I'm a professor at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and bestselling author of "Magic Words."
So this discussion with Nicolas Berger is 2012.
Because when the Allies came to liberate Bergen-Belsen, they found so many dead bodies.
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