The Dangerous Disconnect: Hostages, Journalism, and Political Grandstanding

Daniel Levin is an attorney, political commentator, and author of Nothing but a Circus: Misadventures Among the Powerful and Proof of Life: Twenty Days on the Hunt for a Missing Person in the Middle East.

• How the Syrian regime kidnaps westerners and blames the opposition, keeping them in captivity -- often for years -- as bargaining chips.
• How Daniel became the go-to person for hunting down a missing person in Syria when no government, embassy, or intelligence agency would help.
• What proof of life means in a kidnapping scenario, and how someone in search of a missing person goes about finding this.
• How people use leverage to get what they want from one another in a place where no one does a favor without wanting something in return.
• The nuances of negotiating with criminals.
• And much more...

Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/617

Miss our episode with FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss? Catch up with episode 165: Chris Voss | Negotiate as If Your Life Depended on It here!

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