Senate Democrats are asking for documents related to allegations the nominee to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, prematurely ...

Hostage Rescue Team (HRT). FBI HRT, founded in 1982, is an elite tactical unit formed to provide a full-time federal law enforcement tactical capability to respond to major terrorist incidents ...

Advertising In 2011, he passed rigorous tryouts and was selected to the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team, a highly trained unit ...

Unnamed whistleblower claims Patel inserted himself in a hostage exchange mission and provided public comment without authorization ...

Brian Driscoll refused to assist in the firing of agents involved in January 6th riot cases, pushing back so forcefully that ...

David Edwards has spent over a decade reporting on social justice, human rights and politics for Raw Story. He also writes Crooks and Liars. He has a background in enterprise resource planning and ...

President Trump has promised a monumental shift within the FBI with a major change in leadership at the very top after former Director Christopher Wray and acting director Paul Abbate resigned.

A person who has been affiliated with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and a former aide to a top FBI critic in Congress are now advising ...

Senate Democrats have obtained a whistleblower report claiming that President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, violated protocol during a hostage rescue mission in October 2020.

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 ...

In a press release published on Jan. 14, the agency noted that Driscoll "most recently served as the commander of the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) and Critical Incident Response Group's (CIRG) ...