is five top taliban leaders at guantanamo bay. five terrorists so dangerous they were reportedly only ok d for release to get bergdahl back. these are the hardest of the hard core. these are the highest high risk people. others that we have released have gone back into the fight. that s been documented. and it s disturbing to me that the taliban are the ones that named the people to be released. reporter: the white house is defending this deal, though, insisting they did not break long-standing u.s. policy by negotiating with terrorists. when we are in battles with terrorists and terrorists take an american prisoner, that prisoner still is a u.s. serviceman or woman. we still are a sacred obligation to bring that person back. reporter: we still haven t seen him. his parents haven t even spoken to him. but his father says his son is having a hard time speaking english.
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[ speaking in foreign language ] i m your father, bowe. i want to say thank you to everyone who has supported bowe. after nearly five years in captivity, their son bowe is coming home. release me, please. i m begging you. bring me home, please. bring me home. behind the scenes a secret choreography had quickly been worked out in just the last several days. u.s. command center was set up at an undisclosed location. u.s. command doughs secretly flew to a point near the border where the taliban said they would be waiting to turn bergdahl over. back at guantanamo bay officials from qatar were on standby, waiting to take custody of the five taliban detainees the u.s. was releasing in return for bergdahl. that was the dwarn tguarantee t
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kind of recovery, rescue, and then doing it as part of a swap and and having faith that the people you re dealing with are doing so in good faith. the way you describe it, it s absolutely fascinating. i want to go back to what you said about the taliban, or the people who have been at guantanamo, being in the air since you said 2:00 p.m. eastern. can you shed a little more light on that leap of faith? maybe that the taliban took? because it s clear that that the army sergeant was released before those at guantanamo were. yeah. maybe only a little bit, dana. what we know is that these five detainees were turned over to or we are told these five detainees were turned over to qatari custody on the ground at guantanamo bay. so the qataris had custody of them, legal custody if you will, physical custody of them, at
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now when i need my government, it seems that i have been totally abandoned and forgotten. reporter: now, the leader of al qaeda has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping and the conditions that have been set for his release are the release of al qaeda prisoners being held, detainees in the united states at guantanamo bay and of course, the u.s. maintains the position it does not negotiate. brianna? barbara, the obama administration, we have heard them repeatedly say, the president has talked about how al qaeda has been so severely, you know, taken down from its abilities at one point, but what are the most recent intelligence reports showing? reporter: well, when you talk about that, that may well be the al qaeda of 9/11, the old core, the traditional al qaeda, but intelligence estimates are now very much saying there are new rising affiliates and they are posing new dangers to the united
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