You would think the identification and arrest of sleeper agents working for al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), and operating on U.S. soil in 2003, is a success story our intelligence and law enforcement agencies can rightly trumpet, no? Not according to Peter Bergen, who is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and a national security analyst for CNN.

Writing about the inspector general’s report on the CIA’s detention and interrogation program and two other CIA analyses released on August 24, Bergen wrote the following on CNN.com: