Defense Writers Group
4 April 2024
Moderator: Greetings, and welcome to a very special Defense Writers Group with Roger D. Carstens, the Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs.
Some of you are here for the first time. Our ground rules are as always, this is on the record. You can record for accuracy of quotes but there’s no rebroadcast of audio or video.
I’ll ask the first question. Three of you have emailed me already to get on the list, but we have lots of time to go around the table.
First, I do want to call on my special co-host today, Paul Beckett of the Wall Street Journal.
Mr. Beckett: Thank you, Thom. Thank you, Roger. We appreciate you being here. Thanks to all of you for coming.
The Journal, obviously this is an area, hostage-taking of foreign governments has been very much a focus of ours in the last year, since our colleague Evan Gershkovich was unlawfully detained in Russia...
