to twitter asking why lindh wasn t prosecuted for treason and sentenced to life in prison, a position held by conservatives. he met with usama bin laden, chose to go to the front lines to fight the taliban in summer of 2001. john walker lindh swore allegiance to jihad. reporter: foreign policy magazine released documents from the national counterterrorism center saying while in prison, continue to advocate global jihadist translate violent extremist texts. prison cannot keep lindh from his jihadist ways and now he is on the street with less control. all the things that went into this day, be let out early, we could review it all. reporter: for me lindh sitting to northern virginia were supervision will be handled and he told mister span to shut his mouth, lindh has been exonerated and cast he can t let it go.
what can we expect from him while he is free on the streets? yes, there are going to be restrictions on him but he is being monitored 24 hours a day in prison. is that even possible on the outside? i feel like the things he has done while in prison are grounds, in some cases here, for the fbi, cia to investigate people who proclaim these things who aren t even in prison, so eye is and lindh being investigated? at the very least before we release them into the streets? shannon: are you worried that other people will be in danger because of him? absolutely, absolutely. someone who sends a letter, has no qualms about writing isis is doing a spectacular job as a danger to anybody. anyone who thinks the slaughter of men, women, and children is a spectacular thing is not something anybody should want on
prison no longer hold the man known as the american taliban, john walker lin, a young man from california who left america to fight alongside the taliban. he was discovered near prison in afghanistan. he had been interviewed by a cia operative, shortly after, he was killed in a prison uprising. his family said he knew of the uprising, left quiet, leaving him on aware of the ambush. lindh sentence was 20 years. his life span he says the sentence was not addressed. the former director of the cia and a secretary of state agrees. unexplainable and unconscionable. i led the cia. he was one of ours that we are now allowing someone who was involved in his death out of jail out of what was a relatively short sentence. even liberals took to twitter
asking why lindh wasn t prosecuted for treason and sentenced to life in prison? he met with osama bin laden, he chose to go to the front lines to fight with the taliban. in the summer of 2001, john walker lindh swore allegiance t to. leaked documents stated that while in prison, lindh continue to advocate for global. now he is on the street with less control. all the things that went into this day where he is being allowed out early, i think we need to review them. lindh is heading to indiana, and he says, he can t let it go. shannon, back to you. shannon: mike tobin, thanks very much.
allison was just a child when her father became the first american killed in the current afghanistan conflict. she recently sent a letter to the president asking him to stop lindh s release. allison, good to have you with us tonight. thanks for having me. shannon: i want to play a little bit more about the president had to say, the more full sound bite about what he said to stop the release from happening. here s what he said today. what bothers me more than anything else is that here s a man who has not given up his proclamation of terror. and we have to let him out. am i happy about it? not even a little bit. the lawyers have gone through it with a fine tooth comb. if there was a way to break that, i would ve broken it in two seconds. shannon: how are you and your family feeling tonight? tonight i think we are just feeling shocked, disappointed. we hope that the very least there would be an investigation