Gary Berntsen

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2000 Berntsen went to Afghanistan in March 2000 as a part of a CIA team that planned on capturing a senior Al Qaeda leader.
2001 (9/19/2001) Cofer Black told Berntsen, "You have one mission. Go find the al-Qaeda and kill them. We're going to eliminate them. Get bin Laden, find him. I want his head in a box... I want to take it down and show the president."
2010 Berntsen officially announced his candidacy for the New York Senate Seat currently held by Chuck Schumer.
Berntsen writes that though leaders at the CIA, particularly Cofer Black and Henry Crumpton "had shown a willingness to plan and execute risky missions,"[3] top US government leadership including President Bill Clinton and CIA Director George Tenet were un
Gary Berntsen led several of CIA's most important counterterrorism deployments including the United States' response to the East Africa Embassy bombings and the 9/11 attacks.