while do you lose the fear that one morning someone is going to come in and kill you? yes, you do. you re this thing they re keeping alive to sort of trade for what they want later on. it s incredibly isolating. i had this afghan journalist who spoke english and i could talk to him. what s different in bergdahl s case is he was completely alone. i learned a local language. you try to humanize yourself and keep yourself alive so you tell them stories about your life and you talk about family, anything human to stay away from politics. you say stay away from politics because they would get very angry? they had these sort of delusional ideas about the united states and about what they would do for a hostage. $25 million in cash and 15 prisoners from guantanamo bay cuba. when we escaped it was 7 million in cash and seven prisoners from guantanamo bay, cuba. when they have you where there is a safe haven, there s no
you just wonder if you re going to be forgotten. what do you think about that in that period? are you at this point after a while do you lose the fear that one morning someone is going to come in and kill you? yes, you do. you re this thing they re keeping alive to sort of trade for what they want later on. it s incredibly isolating. i had this afghan journalist who spoke english and i could talk to him. what s different in bergdahl s case is he was completely alone. i learned a local language. you try to humanize yourself and keep yourself alive so you tell them stories about your life and you talk about family, anything human to stay away from politics. you say stay away from politics because they would get very angry? they had these sort of delusional ideas about the united states and about what they would do for a hostage. the initial demands for my release were $25 million in cash and 15 prisoners from guantanamo bay cuba. when we escaped it was 7 million
in cash and seven prisoners from guantanamo bay, cuba. when they have you where there is a safe haven, there s no reason to make a deal. in the end i escaped, i went to a military base only a half mile from the house where we were being held captive. pakistani soldiers never came out of bases to see what taliban were doing. they had total control of these towns. when you get there, you insist that you are able to make a phone call to the united states to let people know because you were worried that the pakistani military would just hand you back to the taliban. i want to be very specific here. i am here because this brave, afghan journalist helped me escape that night and then there was a brave pakistani army captain there are many brave soldiers in the pakistani army that are fighting the taliban and dying. that captain let me on the base. he apologized to me. he said as a pakistani, as a muslim for my captivity. there are moderates in pakistan that really hate the taliban as w
attorneys for jerry sandusky suggest there are at least 17 accusers in the child sexual abuse case. there were ten cited in the criminal charges. he faces more than 50 counts of sexual acts with boys. he pleaded not guilty. the arraignment of the 9/11 conspirators before a military court in cuba today had some fireworks. what should have taken minutes took hours, including one of the men blurting out they re going to kill us. chris lawrence is in guantanamo. fred, when thecome raws were off and the court was in recess, khalid shake mohammed and the other defendant laughed, talked to each other, and even had a copy of the economist magazine that they passed back and forth, but then when the court was in session, they tuned out, refusing to participate or answer questions. one man gestured at one point and shouted that they may kill us, that they may kill us to make it look like suicide. he said this may be the last time you see us. that was really the only outburst. at tim
prison for terror suspects in guantanamo bay cuba and how impossible our job is there. wikileaks released 700 classified documents. joining me to talk about revelations, cnn national security analyst peter burgin and jeff toobin. welcome to both of you. jeff, you have been to gitmo twice in your capacity as a journalist, i believe. not as an inmate. just want to put that out there. what do these documents tell us about our capacity to prosecute successfully the 172 people we hold there? it s really hard. it s really hard to learn anything accurate about these people. the judgment the bush administration tried to make in the seven years covered by these documents was who s dangerous and who s not. we ve seen that sometimes they were right and sometimes they were wrong. there was one terrible example of someone who was released who went to be a suicide bomber and several examples of people who