WHITE HOUSE DOCUMENTS & PRESS RELEASES:

Executive Order: Hostage Recovery Activities

Presidential Policy Directive/PPD-30: U.S. Nationals Taken Hostage Abroad and Personnel Recovery Efforts

FACT SHEET: U.S. Government Hostage Policy

PRESIDENT’S STATEMENT ON U.S. GOVERNMENT HOSTAGE POLICY REVIEW:

Statement by the President on the U.S. Government’s Hostage Policy Review (Text)

[NOTE: This post will be updated with new documents and resources as they are issued by the White House.]

RELEVANT PRESS COVERAGE:

“The ransom dilemma: why Washington is softening policy on cash for hostages”
(Rory Carroll for The Guardian)

“How the White House Abandoned American Hostages”
(Barak Barfi for Foreign Policy)