Mention the name Kurt Muse in certain quarters of the U.S. intelligence community and the response is likely to be mixed.  Some will call him a patriot, while others will call him a fool. Some will call him courageous, and others will tell you that he's a trouble maker.

Mention his name among the super-secret Delta Force operators, though, and conversation stops.  To them, to a man, Kurt Muse is an unequivocal hero, a man who survived unspeakable deprivations and imprisonment only to turn away his single opportunity for release because it would have meant asking a favor from a brutal dictator toward whose demise he had dedicated–and nearly lost–his life.  This, from men who were chewed alive by gunfire while effecting Kurt's rescue in the opening moments of Operation Just Cause, the U.S. invasion of Panama.