Going Rogue with Lara Logan

WAR & BETRAYAL: INSIDE THE CIA RESPONSE TO 9/11 with Gary Berntsenn | Going Rogue with Lara Logan | Ep 98

Going Rogue with Lara Logan

Show Notes

Former CIA operations officer and leader of the Jawbreaker team during the early Afghanistan war. Gary shares firsthand accounts of post-9/11 operations, the hunt for bin Laden at Tora Bora, and the unprecedented CIA-led military campaign. They discuss missed opportunities, Pakistani duplicity, and the complex Afghan resistance. The conversation concludes with sharp criticism of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, which Gary calls America's greatest military failure, and a call for Americans to honor the sacrifices made in defense of freedom. Check out Gary’s book “Jawbreaker”.

00:00:00 CIA Operative Promises "Flies on Their Eyeballs" in 6 Weeks - and Delivers 00:00:36 Inside Jawbreaker: The Secret CIA Team That Started the Afghan War 00:07:46 Invasion or Liberation? The Truth About What Really Happened on the Ground 00:11:07 Tora Bora Tactics: Hunting Bin Laden With 60 Men and $4 Million in Cash 00:15:33 Six Teams, Six Ethnic Groups: How the CIA Weaponized Afghan Tribal Alliances 00:19:05 Sleeping in the Room Where Al-Qaeda Assassinated the Lion of Panjshir 00:29:34 Why Rumsfeld's 6-Month Plan Was Killed in One Sentence 00:38:38 Stopping the Next 9/11: The Secret Singapore Plot Nobody Talks About 00:44:09 Bin Laden's Escape: The Rangers Request That Was Denied and Changed History 00:53:43 When Did 9/11 Really Begin? The Soviet Invasion, the Mujahideen, and the CIA's Blowback 01:01:02 Iran's Secret War on America: Hezbollah, Venezuela, and the Nuclear Threat Nobody Wanted to Name 01:15:30 The Greatest Military Failure in American History: How Biden Surrendered Afghanistan

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