New White House Hostage Rescue Strategy MIA

in the news | January 30, 2015

The Daily Beast

Shane Harris:

The administration has consistently maintained that the Bergdahl swap was not a deal worked out with terrorists and doesn’t affect its policy against ransoms and concessions.“The review does not include reconsideration of our no-concession policy,” Baskey said, though it will “examine and seek to define best practices based on instances when working through intermediaries has proven successful.”