The United States is at war in Iraq, Afghanistan, and against the dispersed cells of al Qaeda and Islamist affiliates around the world. Is the CIA also at war, or is it business as usual at the agency? 

The CIA proudly announced last week that it has opened a new office building designed according to state-of-the-art “green” principles. Fifty percent of the building has been constructed from “waste diversion from landfill.” Among other achievements, the new campus features such high-tech wonders as “bike racks” and 22,000 square feet of “vegetated roof.”

The interior has facilities worthy of a James Bond movie, including not only “low-flow” toilets but also “waterless urinals.” For the first time, CIA agents will also be cleared to use “individual lighting controls” in their cubicles; formerly, in the tightly run agency, the light switches were under the control of top spymasters.

The new CIA facility “is an ecologically sensitive building — reducing our impact on the global environment while improving the quality of the workspace for the individual,” crows a ranking CIA official.

Congratulations are due the CIA for investing its time, effort, and materials “in creating a comfortable workplace that fosters efficiency and collaboration while respecting our natural resources.”

But Connecting the Dots has only one question for the CIA as it celebrates its new “ecologically sensitive” and “comfortable workplace”: Where is Osama bin Laden?