updated Sat. March 30, 2024
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Artvoice
March 18, 2018
There are others who claim the FBI and police are holding back information. Infowars radio host Alex Jones said, “I have the hostage rescue team telling me the hotel room [where Paddock was found dead] was full of Antifa and Islamic literature and they're pissed because their bosses won't give it out.”.
550 KTSA
March 13, 2018
“I love the idea of it,” Greg Shaffer, a former FBI special agent and member of the bureau's elite Hostage Rescue Team, told ABC News. “When you pull a fire alarm in a school, the alarm, the alert, goes throughout the school. Having the same thing for an active shooter is an outstanding idea,” said Shaffer,Ãâà...
KUOW News and Information
March 6, 2018
But prosecutors have charged Astarita — a member of the FBI's elite Hostage Rescue Team — with obstruction of justice and lying to investigators. He's pleaded not guilty. The purpose of Tuesday's hearing was for the government's expert witnesses to answer questions posted by expert witnesses for theÃâà...
CNN
March 4, 2018
The FBI's Hostage Rescue Team, located within the US Marine Corps base at Quantico, Virginia, has hosted active shooter training for units like the New York State Police's Special Operations Response Team. And FBI SWAT teams frequently host local police departments to share "best practices" and toÃâà...
ABC News
February 28, 2018
The average distance victims in mass shootings are shot from is just 18 inches, according to Greg Shaffer, a former FBI special agent and member of the bureau's elite Hostage Rescue Team and founder of Shaffer Security Group, which specializes in active shooter response. “Those hiding under desks areÃâà...
ticklethewire.com
February 27, 2018
Assistant U.S. Attorney Gary Sussman, a member of the FBI's elite Hostage Rescue Team, defended the charges, saying Astarita liked to three supervisory FBI agents and in two interviews with Oregon State Police detectives. “Defendant told different lies at different times to three different FBI supervisorsÃâà...
OPB News
February 26, 2018
A federal judge will hear arguments Monday morning in Portland about whether to dismiss some of the charges against an elite FBI agent. ... W. Joseph Astarita, a member of the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team, is accused of lying to investigators about firing his weapon during the 2016 occupation of theÃâà...
Dallas News (blog)
February 25, 2018
Bill Buford can hear the eerie quiet as he and other federal agents ride up to the Branch Davidian compound, the silence broken by a voice on the command radio channel — "There's no one outside." Pete Mastin peers through a slit in the canvas concealing him and his colleagues and mutters, "Jesus, thatÃâà...
Daily Democrat
February 15, 2018
No one was injured as law enforcement officials served 69 search, parole and probation warrants backed by aircraft and the FBI's hostage rescue team. In all, there were 18 arrested Wednesday, including the two inmates, who were named in newly unsealed federal indictments. Eleven others were sweptÃâà...
CNN
February 15, 2018
Within 13 minutes of the first 911 call, Klebold and Harris fatally shot 12 students and a teacher and wounded 23 other people before killing themselves with gunshot wounds to the head. SWAT teams entered the school 47 minutes after the gunfire erupted. An exhaustive FBI review of the police response atÃâà...
KCRA Sacramento
February 14, 2018
No one was injured as law enforcement officials served 69 search, parole and probation warrants backed by aircraft and the FBI's hostage rescue team. Eighteen of those arrested Wednesday, including the two inmates, were named in newly unsealed federal indictments. Eleven others were swept up onÃâà...
The Hill
December 31, 1999
But having been deployed to Afghanistan with the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) in the early years after 9/11, I knew of her position within the agency and association with the coercive interrogation techniques program development. So, after having been read in to the fledgling program, I was clearedÃâà...
