FBI’s Washington field office at center of efforts to get U.S. hostages home

The Washington Post ^ | September 16, 2014 | Adam Goldman

[Timber Rattler]

When American journalist Theo Curtis was released in the Golan Heights late last month after being held in Syria by an Islamist group for nearly two years, a pair of FBI agents were waiting for him. One of the agents called Curtis’s mother to tell her that her son was finally safe.

That moment was a high point — not only for Curtis’s family but also for the FBI agents based in the Washington field office working on the abduction.

The FBI “deserves some credit for what it did for me,” Curtis said in an interview.

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The killings by the Islamic State of James Foley and Steven Sotloff were a blow to the FBI. And tension has recently mounted with the families who criticized the U.S. government for not doing enough to free them.

[Timber Rattler]

So tell me what's wrong with this picture?

[skeeter]

Plenty. One thing is that a major news publication would go to bat in such a way for an administration currently suffering a PR disaster in the form of revelations that they threatened the desperate family of a recently beheaded hostage.

An administration that recently traded five high value terrorist leaders for a single squirrely deserter.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Thank God 0bama isn't white. Trading five Taliban commanders for one America-hating deserter without giving Congress the opportunity to nix the trade would've landed him in prison.

The next time I hear anyone talk about how oppressed blacks are in America, I'm gonna.. #&%@!*&^#!!!!!!

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

P.S. Is there a media blackout on the Bergdahl situation??

[Puppage]

How about our marine in Mexico?

[elpadre]

How does the FBI have jurisdiction over these kidnappings which have no roots in the USA??

[DesertRhino]

The FBI Dc office? Do basically, they’re screwed?

[DesertRhino]

That should be “So basically”. Sorry guys, smart phone, old eyes, third Beer..