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...widely accepted diagnostic criteria exist to identify Stockholm syndrome - also known as terror-bonding or traumatic bonding - and critics insist its apparent prevalence is largely a figment of the media's overactive imagination. One FBI report called such close victim-captor relationships "overemphasized, overanalyzed, overpsychologized and overpublicized." Nonetheless, the Swedish clerks' puzzling response to their ordeal has been emulated over and over again in a series of high-profile cases. When heiress Patty Hearst was abducted by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974, for example, she famously became their accomplice, adopting an assumed name and abetting the radical political group...
...critics of Stockholm syndrome maintain, these captives were the exceptions. According to a 2007 FBI report, 73% of victims displayed no signs of such affection for their abductors. Nonetheless, crisis negotiators often actually try to encourage captor-hostage bonding by telling perpetrators about the victims' families or personal lives. Being viewed as a fellow human being, the theory goes, may be a victim's best hope for staying alive. Which means Dugard's apparent reluctance to attempt an escape may ultimately have been her ticket to freedom...
...surprisingly, many Republicans this week have attacked Obama for creating an interagency team that appears to effectively take interrogations away from the CIA and gave it to the FBI, and to some degree, the National Security Council. But if I were CIA Director Leon Panetta I would be secretly relieved at this change. The CIA is not suited for this kind of work, and an interagency effort is the only way to spread blame for an inherently risky program like this. And this is not to mention that if the program is ever launched again you can count...
...Nobody in this country is above the law, an FBI agent or otherwise, and ultimately the ends do not justify the means." - Unusual public remarks at press conference the day former FBI agent John Connolly was convicted in 2002. (Boston Globe, January...
...kind of has blinders on in the sense that he doesn't worry about the politics and all the other stuff that might be swirling around, and I think that's really what makes him so successful." -Warren T. Bamford, special agent in charge of the FBI's Boston office. (Boston Globe, January...