And Furlong wasn’t exactly a rogue operator. The entire episode was born from the frustrations of an American general in Afghanistan who didn’t trust the CIA and who set Michael Furlong loose. If, as the Pentagon investigation into the operation concluded, nobody “connected the dots” about what Furlong was doing, it was because nobody wanted to. “My bosses wanted all of this,” Furlong said, smoking the fifth cigarette of a lengthy interview. “And I made it happen.”
