Marine to Green Beret to Delta to CIA: The Man Who Hunted bin Laden | Gary Harrington

<p>At Tora Bora in December 2001, Gary Harrington sat on one of the closest American observation posts to Osama bin Laden — close enough, he says, to watch the bombs he was calling in streak past the ridge sideways. Then the war handed him to the CIA, and he spent the next decade hunting the same enemy from the inside.</p><p>Harrington is the rare operator who wore the uniform six different ways: Marine Corps infantry officer, Marine Recon, the second officer ever to graduate the Marine Scout Sniper Instructor course, Green Beret 18-Delta Special Forces medic, Delta Force operator (ODA 572 / Task Force Dagger, Bronze Star at Tora Bora), and CIA case officer. Over nearly eight hours, he walks through the entire arc — from a poor childhood in the North Carolina mountains, to the caves of Tora Bora, to the cables of Benghazi — and the night on Black Mountain he says set the course for all of it.</p><p>It&apos;s a story about war, tradecraft, and the long road home: what the job cost him, the forgiveness it took to come back, and the line he uses for both halves of his life — &quot;I wore wolf&apos;s clothing so long, I became the wolf.&quot;</p><p>In this conversation:<br/>• The 9/11 morning that turned him toward the war — and the climb to the OP above Tora Bora<br/>• Calling in strikes near bin Laden&apos;s position, the daisy cutter he says &quot;did nothing,&quot; and why he believes the body was hidden<br/>• Nate Chapman, the first American killed in Afghanistan — and the helicopter Harrington was told not to get on<br/>• Standing up firebase Coast: warlords, duffel bags of cash, and the plot to take out Pacha Khan<br/>• Running smugglers in Iraq — and the hidden camera that confirmed Jessica Lynch<br/>• Hugging the Taliban to feel for suicide vests, and a black Toyota he walked away from two minutes before it detonated<br/>• The strike that answered the Camp Chapman bombing<br/>• Reading the Benghazi cables in real time — why he says &quot;that was fire for effect&quot;<br/>• Beirut, 1983: the barracks bombing, and the day he refused a U.S. ambassador&apos;s order<br/>• Delta Force selection on a broken compass — forced out on an unjust evaluation, then clawing his way back<br/>• The glowing light on Black Mountain at his lowest moment, and the words he says he heard: &quot;Do not be afraid… I have a purpose for you&quot;<br/>• Faith, forgiveness, meeting his wife Kim, and the mission behind Power Prudence</p><p>⏱ CHAPTERS<br/>0:00:00 Welcome &amp; intr