talked to said, and you can see in this video, that this exchange took place without firing a shot, without things getting too heated. it was just conducted in a very businesslike fashion, and the exchange occurred and both sides walked away thinking, well, maybe we can do business with one another down the road. and this is something that, frankly, administration officials say will have to happen in the coming months and years as the u.s. winds down the war in afghanistan, as this one official said, you don't negotiate peace with your friends, you do that with your enemies. and so, this episode may have been sort of a first test case to see whornether or not the u. and taliban can work with each other in terms of doing the mechanics of winding down the war in afghanistan. you are right, as you were just saying in that setup, there is sort of a mess that the white house has on its hands at this point when it comes to the notification of key lawmakers up on capitol hill, dianne feinstein is not happy. she said yesterday that she regretted that the white house had not have formed her prior to this prisoner exchange and that