Inside an FBI SWAT Team’s Lethal Race to Save Hostage Lives | Ep. 261

About this video

Former FBI agent Jeremy Redmond discusses his 21-year career with the FBI SWAT team and as a sniper. The episode opens with Redmond describing an urgent hostage rescue mission where his team received sudden execution orders before completing their planning. Ritland then interviews Redmond about his background, including his path from the Air Force Academy through OSI to the FBI, his work on counterintelligence following 9/11, and various operational stories from his book ‘Send Me.’

Key takeaways

• Redmond recounts a hasty hostage rescue mission where his team received execute orders before completing their deliberate and hasty rescue plans, emphasizing the urgency when intelligence indicated someone’s life was at risk.
• Redmond explains that the FBI does not charge anyone directly; agents collect facts and present cases to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, which makes charging decisions.
• Redmond describes counterintelligence work as a ‘cat-and-mouse game’ where agents track hostile intelligence services, allow them to recruit sources, then feed them false information while learning their tradecraft and networks.

Episode details: published October 14, 2025 · 30.6K views · 3:02:36 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Stories told by Mike Ritland’s podcast guests are the guests’ own accounts, attributed to them — not independently verified. Commentary is Ritland’s, presented as his analysis.

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