The FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) is one of the most highly trained tactical units in U.S. law enforcement. Formed in 1982, it serves as the FBI’s full-time counterterrorism and hostage recovery ...

In February, one of the nation's most elite units breached a heavily fortified bunker using specially designed explosives, disoriented the adversary with "flashbang" stun grenades, and then, in ...

Often, those agents were members of SWAT teams, and some came from the elite Hostage Rescue Team, which is dispatched to the FBI’s most dangerous and highest-priority operations. The deputy FBI ...

A former FBI analyst who quit due to disagreements with President Donald Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel declared his ...

Brian Driscoll drew acclaim—and inspired memes—after making a principled stand, and has (so far) withstood any MAGA purge.

In March, Patel released an FBI recruitment video, showing the director in the field with agents and highlighting footage from the hostage rescue team facility urging people to join the team.

Before that, he was commander of the bureau’s hostage-rescue team and was a leader of a group that responds to crisis situations. Driscoll joined the FBI as a special agent in 2007 and was first ...

The agents pulled for this work often come from SWAT teams and sometimes the Hostage Rescue Team, the person said. The FBI declined to comment to both NBC and the Daily Beast. Frank Figliuzzi ...

Public Safety and Criminal Justice reporter Lauren Elizabeth Shults attended El Paso 2025 FBI Citizen's Academy.

In March, Patel released an FBI recruitment video, showing the director in the field with agents and highlighting footage from the hostage rescue team facility urging people to join the team. The ...

During last week's El Paso 2025 FBI Citizen's Academy class, students were given the chance to de-escalate a simulated hostage crisis ... Paso Crisis Negotiations team, coaching us through ...