Wage to 15. Five taliban fighters held at the Guantanamo Bay prison for 12 years have been exchanged for one army prisoner, Bowe Bergdahl the idaho. Republicans accused the Obama Administration of violating detainee transfer laws. Today the white house fought back. Prisoner exchanges are not unman in armed conflict. Without getting into specific assurance, i can tell you that they included a travel ban, in fact sharing on the detainees between the United States and qatar. I can tell you the assurances were sufficient to allowing the secretary of defense, chuck hagel, in coordination with the National Security team to determine that the threat posed by the detainees to the United States would be mitt dated, and that the mitigated and that the transfer was in the u. S. National interest. Among those denouncing the swap is hamid karzai, said to be angry about being kept in the dark. Randall pinkston has more. U. S. Officials do not know how much longer Bowe Bergdahl will be treated in a h
Killed 17 children and adults at that south Florida High School yesterday. Nikolas cruz blended in with students as he opened fire using an ar15. Chaos ensued. Kids were forced the take cover under desks and in closets. Police say he launched smoke grenades and pulled the fire alarm to get students into the hallways. Bill at least 17 people are dead. Authorities have identified the suspect as 19yearold nikolas cruz, a former student at that school and had been expelled for disciplinary reasons. Sandra authorities have charged him with 17 counts of premeditated murder and set to make his First Court Appearance this afternoon as we get new details from students who were inside the school. He ran up and down the hallway just shooting into the classrooms. He shot through my door. I was sitting down and pop, pop, pop. I left. I was not going to deal with that. I heard boom, boom, boom. That cant be anything other than the gunshot. Everyone climbing the fence, everyone. There is no room on t