David Rutherford Show: Iran Rescue, Australian War Crimes, a SEAL Kill Squad, and the Istanbul Attack
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
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4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
David covers four stories every operator and security-minded American needs to understand right now: 🔹 The Iran CSAR Mission — how 155 aircraft, hundreds of SOF operators, and a CIA deception campaign pulled off one of the biggest pilot rescues since Vietnam. David breaks down the escape and evasion tactics, the parallels to Operation Eagle Claw, and what the equipment losses mean. 🔹 Ben Roberts-Smith War Crimes — Australia's most decorated living soldier arrested for five counts of war crime murder in Afghanistan. David gives his honest assessment as a former operator, the Eddie Gallagher parallels, and why the battlefield is not a courtroom. 🔹 The Spear Operations Group — Navy SEALs and Green Berets ran a secret assassination team out of a $7M mansion in San Diego, paid $1.5M/month by the UAE. David reacts to the kill list, the Delta Force recruiter, and why every operator has had "the mercenary conversation." 🔹 Israeli Consulate Attack in Turkey — three gunmen opened fire on the Israeli consulate in Istanbul this morning. David connects it to the rising threat paradigm and what it signals for Europe and the West.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:48 - The Iran CSAR Mission - 155 Aircraft, One Pilot
17:00 - Australia's Most Decorated Soldier Arrested
32:57 - Spear Operations Group - The Mercenary Hit Squad
42:38 - Israeli Consulate Attack in Istanbul
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.0 | In the last week, we've had one of the biggest C-SAR missions ever conducted in U.S. history, |
| 0:10.2 | two pilots on E&E in the mountains of Iran. |
| 0:13.6 | We have one of the most decorated SAS, Australian SAS soldiers in history, |
| 0:20.1 | be brought up on war crimes in Afghanistan? |
| 0:24.8 | We've had a bunch of green berets and Navy SEALs that got busted for being their own |
| 0:30.7 | assassination team for a foreign government. And finally, just this morning, the Israeli consulate in Turkey gets shot up by some bad guys. |
| 0:41.3 | I'll tell you what, a lot of former operators and current operators are getting their op on. |
| 0:47.7 | Today on the David Rutherford show. |
| 0:49.8 | Woo ya. |
| 0:50.2 | Yeah. All right, Jory, holy shit, buddy. |
| 1:03.3 | We have absolutely, like, this is the Operators Delight episode, all right? |
| 1:08.8 | If you're an operator or you want to be an operator or you dig operator shit, I'm going to tell you what, |
| 1:15.4 | this is the one, this is the episode for you because I'm telling you what, the four stories |
| 1:21.1 | we're going to cover today are absolutely, uh, paints the, the essential picture of the various stages of an operator's life, right? |
| 1:33.6 | This is no shit, I'm telling you. |
| 1:35.6 | This is the way, this is the narrative of the, well, and I, I know, if you're listening, |
| 1:40.9 | hey, I live this life, maybe not as quite as aggressive as if. |
| 1:45.0 | Have some friends who are in this ballpark in a bunch of ways, right? But this is the reality of what's going on. |
| 1:51.1 | So let's jump right in. All right. This past weekend, I think we, everybody was paying attention. |
| 1:57.1 | It was on their, you know, on pins and needles and paying attention to this incredible |
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