Clint Van Zandt, FBI Hostage Negotiator

Today I spoke to Clint Van Zandt, the FBI hostage negotiator who has worked on some of the most notorious cases of the last two decades. He told stories about:

• dealing with David Koresh and the Branch Davidians at Waco
• how he knew immediately that the Oklahoma City Bombing suspect was domestic, not from the Middle East
• why they re-painted his office when they used it to shoot a scene for "Silence Of The Lambs"
• how we should be doing profiling at airport security based on behavior, not nationality or appearance

Listen to the conversation here.

Van Zandt's book is "Facing Down Evil: Life On The Edge As An FBI Hostage Negotiator."