well-regarded newspapers in the world and he said, i am giving you this material and i want you very carefully to vet it, and only release that which is necessary to inform my fellow citizens about what their government is doing. history will be the ultimate decider with the facts, but do we know whether anyone has died because of the snowden leaks? and the if not, has it really hurt national security? we don t know and we don t know the full extent to whatever that it might have affected national security. i think if it has in real sensitive ways, perhaps the government doesn t want to say. but what you saw there were two guys who enjoy stirring the pot, stirring it together. i think that s essentially what that was. it was, and it was good tv. it was. thank you very much. as you are always, lynn sweet and ed okeefe, thank you. inside gitmo, you won t believe how the detainees get their news. that s next. that would be my daughter hi dad. she s a dietitian. and back when
going live. so not too many people knew about it. and it s something, of course, that was ksh came down from the highest levels. did you get a sense of how they personally feel about it, given that this has been their mission for 12 years now? well, it s hard to get to them about how they personally feel, because they re in the military. so what they ll tell you is, the president of the united states wants to close guantanamo bay, they want to do what the president wants to do, but until that is possible, day will do their job, which is keeping these men safe, keeping them protected, and keeping them, you know, enclosed in the prison camp. okay. i think one of the more interesting angles is how the detainees get their news. granted, some of them will get to watch cable news and even the commander you spoke with mentioned msnbc. but it s not exactly stars and stripes, the way some other areas, right? it depends on which camp you re in.
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billion defense spending bill for 2015. it happened friday. the recent prisoner swap of five taliban members for sergeant bowe bergdahl prompted one significant amendment to the bill, though, blocking any guantanamo bay detainee transfers for a year. 149 prisoners remain at gitmo, consider 15 who are considered high-value detainees. and among them, the five 11 9/11 co-conspirators who are on trial. this week they attended a meeting that the fbi tried to spy on their defense team. joining me now, shawna thomas, who just returned from gitmo. good to see you and welcome. let s first talk about these allegations against the fbi. did anything come out of monday s hearing on that? the allegations came out in april, when a member of the defense team told the lawyer on the defense team, hey, the fbi approached me. what we learned in the time in between is that the fbi had been
baghdad. this follows that partial evacuation order by the state department that took place over the weekend and this comes as isis militants captured another city in iraq, this tyke this time taking the city of telefar. we ll keep you posted. attorneys from gitmo confirm those gitmo detainees knew all about the five prisoners being swapped for bowe bergdahl by watching it right here on fox, and that s not all the television they re watching. listen to this. they get satellite tv. they get newspapers. they get to watch fox and espn. they get to watch the soccer games that are going on right now. isn t that sweet? the 149 remaining prisoners have access to all the tv they want. they are also taking life skills classes, learning about gardening and also doing yoga. a black bear giving a