This video discusses the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Hostage Rescue Team (HRT). FBI HRT, founded in 1982, is an elite tactical unit formed to provide a full-time federal law ...

After a seven-year legal battle, a Houston judge ruled in favor of the family of Ulises Valladares, who was gunned down in ...

Christopher Whitcomb: Hi, my name is Chris Whitcomb. I'm a former FBI agent. I was a member of the Hostage Rescue Team. Been involved in dozens of high-profile operations around the world ...

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 FBI still manages to shoot itself in the foot. Saturday should be regarded as a great bureau success. With valor and skill, the agency’s Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) managed to end a hostage ...

"In this case, Ulises was taken as a hostage and held for ransom, and the FBI went to the place where he was being held," attorney Randall Kallinen said. The two agents sent to rescue him were ...

Driscoll, who most recently served as the commander of the bureau’s Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) and Critical Incident Response ... Driscoll was awarded the FBI Medal of Valor and the FBI Shield of ...

U.S. District Judge Kenneth Hoyt this week ordered the government to pay more than $2 million in damages over the death of ...

Sundberg joined the FBI in 2002, when he was assigned to the Portland Field Office in Oregon. In 2005, Sundberg began working with the Critical Incident Response Group as a member of the Hostage ...