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#364 – Chris Voss: FBI Hostage Negotiator
Lex Fridman Podcast
We Don't Negotiate With Terrorists
The policy since 2002, when Bush 43 signed a national security presidential directive, NSPD 12, basically said we won't make concessions. If it's just communication, we negotiate with them all the time. But Obama released five high level Taliban leaders from Guantanamo in exchange for an AWOL soldier that we immediately threw in jail. And I thought that was a horrible deal. And then Trump turned around and topped it by putting 5,000 terrorists back on the battlefield.
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