Tucker Carlson: “By November 2001, it was the CIA's Special Activities…”

“And that's what we were doing. The CIA provided millions of dollars in direct cash payment to anti Taliban groups, along with weapons and communications support. By November 2001, it was the CIA's Special Activities Division, not the US military that had taken Kabul and the fortress called Mazar I Sharif. The CIA targeted Bin Laden as early as December 2001. But as was so often the case during the tenure of George Tenet, the CIA failed to capture Bin Laden.” (23:51–24:01)

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