American journalist Theo Curtis said he might not be alive if not for the FBI.
FBI agents in the Washington D.C. field office had been working on getting Curtis released from Syria, where he had been held by an Islamist group, the Washington Post reports.
The FBI “deserves some credit for what it did for me,” Curtis said in an interview.
The field office is handling the investigation into the kidnapping and killing of Americans by the Islamic State.
Leading the office is Andrew G. McGabe, who the Washington Post described as a “rising star” who could be the next deputy director after the retirement of Mark F. Giuliano.
“It’s been an intense couple of years,” McCabe says.
