NEGOTIATING WITH TERRORISTS….Most everyone agrees that you don’t negotiate with terrorists or accede to their demands in order to win the release of a hostage. But did the United States really halt the release of prisoners it was already planning to release just so no one would think we were releasing them because terrorists had demanded it? Jeanne has the story.
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