spring offensive. that threat follows this deadly attack in kabul but a taliban suicide bomber two hours after president obama left afghanistan and the taliban claiming it's just a sign of things to come. let's go straight to nick payton walsh in kabul. when the taliban says spring offensive, tell us exactly what that means. >> reporter: well, something they were talking about two weeks ago but today their statements shortly after barack obama left made it clear they consider it a new operation ahead of them. something they called al faruq, an arabic term referring between a person who can distinguish between good and evil. many targets, principally foreigners, those assisting foreigners, afghan security forces and a variety of other tactics which, of course, this kind of statement is try to design fear through the afghans working with the nato campaign here. we saw this morning a suicide bomber driving a car laden with explosives into the gates of something called the greenvilleage, secure compound popular with foreign contractors here and in the ensuing crossfire there were seven people killed, including one school child and ten schoolchildren injured, so despite the fact that it's part of this announcement of al faruq, it's clear the taliban want to cause no civilian casualties, that's certainly not the case today. the united nations condemning the attack for occurring 200 meters away from a school. >> this is something that the taliban has come forward and talked about every time this year. what is it going -- do you see anything different this time around? >> i think the big difference is the volume we're hearing from the united states about their departure. the previous rear that was something that was supposed to be happening in the years ahead. now it's happening and the surge is withdrawing by september and he says he wants the afghans in charge of their own security and a steady withdrawal pace from september onwards. that means more troops leaving very soon indeed, and with that particular dynamic here, i'm sure if you're an insurgent you're not really trying to work out what you're going to do in the next month ahead or panicking particularly. you're just going to sit it out and see exactly how the land lies after that. that's the big concern here, that now with this pretty sizable speeding up of nato's withdrawal by many countries, including the united states, that we are going to see an insurgency. no longer is it back foot and moving forward and making its presence felt in different parts of afghan. >> thanks. president obama is vowing american troops in afghanistan won't remain there a single day longer than necessary and that's the key to his exit strategy for the longest war in u.s. history. he announce it had last night in an address from the war zone, but what about specifics? athena jones joins us now out of washington. what are you hearing about the president's plan? >> reporter: good morning, first of all, forgive the news, just saw the president's helicopter land there on the south lawn. what we're hearing most talked about in the plan and the speech is really the timing of it. we know, of course, that it fell on the anniversary of the killing of bin laden. white house officials say that the president's intention was always to spend that day with troops, and really they are focusing on the idea that both president obama and president karzai wanted to sign this strategic partnership agreement before the next nato summit which is in chicago about three weeks from now when they will be meeting with nato allies and discussing the way forward in afghanistan. it was karzai, white house officials, who tell us want it to be signed on afghan soil so that's a little bit of the timing there, kyra. >> obama did not mention though the number of troops that i see here that would remain there after 2014 or even the cost of them being there looking ahead. >> that's right, and in many ways this agreement was short on specifics. it's really a framework. if you look at it it's only ten pages long and they lay out some of the broad elements they are looking at in terms of helping train afghan security forces, helping them with the transition, but when it comes to exactly what the troops will look like after 2014, this is between 2014 and 2024 this agreement is talking about, the decade, those troop levels and how much money will be committed to afghanistan all remains to be worked out, not only with afghanistan but also with these nato allies that they are going to be talking to in a couple -- a few weeks from now in chicago when they make the next big announcement which is to say that afghan forces are going to move into the lead next year so the international forces are going to be taking a support role. but loss and lots still to be worked out, kyra. >> athena jones there at the white house. thanks. one of the few bits of positive news to come out of the secret service scandal. the "washington post" is reporting that none of the 12 women who partied with u.s. agents there at this hotel had any connection to terror groups or drug cartels. "the post-"cites congressional officials who saw documents provided by the secret service to congressional committees. the paper also reports that 10 of the 12 women involved were paid by the agents. a man who oversaw the cia's enhanced interrogation techniques is now talking. jose rodriguez who led counterterrorism efforts at the cia said tactics like waterboarding did not amount to torture and that they did give investigators valuable information. he did do an interview today on cnn, and he downplayed the severity of those techniques used on terror suspects. >> if you actually paid attention and looked at the ten techniques that are used here, they are pretty -- actually pretty wimpy if you look at them one at a time, so, you know, these are things that i have no moral qualms on my own or anybody else who worked with me in doing. mindful of the fact that these are people who killed and who are going to kill more of our people. >> rodriguez has written a book now defending cia policies in the wake of 9/11. he insists it's not a defense of torture but an explanation of methods certified as legal by the justice department. calls for rupert murdoch's broadcast license to be revoked, and i'm not talking about overseas. we're talking about right here in the united states. raining depends on technology. and when it takes a battery, there are athletes everywhere who trust duracell. they rely on copper to go for the gold. duracell. trusted everywhere. 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>> reporter: yeah. this has been an extraordinary story, you know. it's taken so many twists and turns. we heard today that chen guangcheng who escaped house arrest about a week ago has been holed up in the u.s. embassy pretty much ever since, left the embassy of his own volition, went to a hospital, was getting medical treatment and reunited with his family that a deal had been worked out between the u.s. and china for him to leave as a free man and a safe man along with his family. we're now seeing cracks in that, and that agreement is not even yet cast in stone. we're hearing from a very close friend of chen who has been posting on twitter and also confirmed with cnn that she had a conversation with chen and chen's family was being threatened if he did not leave. the threats were if he did not leave there would be violent retribution against his wife and that's his children. that's why he's agreed to leave. the united states insisting that's not the case. a spokesman saying here three times it was put to chen, do you want to leave? do you feel safe? do you have faith in your future? he said yes. i want to go. all of this very much up in the air now, a very cloudy picture, and hillary clinton here, of course, for high-level trade talks. this issue they thought was going to go away. doesn't seem if it will be that easy. >> let's just put into perspective why this activist is getting so much attention. many interesting characteristics, his background, st stan. >> reporter: you know, a blind man, a very poor man, rural man who taught himself the law. he then went to defend the rights of women under china's one-child policy that w.h.o. said that they were being forced into abortions and forced sterilizations. that led to the rough of the party. he was accused of organizing demonstrations, of disrupting traffic and of damaging property. he spent four years in jail. when he was released he was then held under lock and key 24/7 under house arrest before that extraordinary escape about a week ago which has brought about all of this. what's fascinating with chen guangcheng, population here of 1.3 billion, one man, but it's become a symbol for human rights here. hillary clinton has raised his case in the past, and you might recall the actor christian bale, better known for his role in "batman." he was here and tried to visit chen along with us and cnn. we were violently turned away that day, and that, again, real raised the profile of chen, and that's why we're talking about him again today. >> stan grant, we'll follow the story. thanks so much. well, the feds now launching an investigation into the university of montana. at least 50 victims say they were sexually assaulted, and law enforcement let them down. well, if your daughter goes to the university of montana, you're going to want to hear this story. up to 80 allegations of sexual assault, even rape, by fellow classmates and off-campus predators. and now we've learned that the justice department has launched an investigation because it says local law enforcement dropped the ball. these allegations first surfaced last december. the allegations involve at least two members of the university of montana grizzlies football team and the head coach and athletic director have now been dismissed. we asked the justice department to join us, but they declined because of conflicts, but they sent us copies of letters to the university's president informing him of the investigation. we also reached out to the missoula county attorney who issued a statement denying claims of gender discrimination or being slow in responding to the allegations. joining us now on the phone, the reporter who broke this story. gwen floria. tell me how did this all happen? how did you get the tip? how did you uncover the story? >> reporter: this started back in mid-december when i got a tip that two female students at the university of montana had been assaulted by several male students. we were able to confirm that. called the information which added the information that possibly date rape drugs were involved and also told they were starting their own investigation. they hired an outside investigator to look into it, and to be clear all the 80 assaults over the last three years that the justice department is looking into involved -- in and around missoula, not just the university of montana. i think there are only 11 cases that involve university students. >> so does it look like there's a connection, gwen, to what's happening on campus and off campus? >> reporter: well, certainly some of the students i talked to said that when they went to police they were willing to pursue rape cases which as you know are very difficult. in some cases the police said there wasn't enough evidence to pursue the cases, and in others the county attorney's office said there's not enough to go forward with prosecution. >> now the football coach though was dismissed and also the athletic director. why? >> reporter: we don't know. we would love to know. the university said only it was time for a change in leadership. >> and what about the status of the two football players accused of sexual assault and rape? >> reporter: well, one is still awaiting trial. and he has been formally charged. the other has not been formally charged. he is under a civil no contact order with the woman who has accused him. >> and what did the university tell you? what has been the university's response to the story you broke? >> reporter: they have held a series of forums around town and on campus to talk about sexual assault, but they have really limited the amount of information that's coming out, and i think that's really frustrating to people. i think they are following a very narrow legal lined. i think politically that has not worked so well. >> do you think there was a cover-up here, gwen, on behalf of the athletic program, they didn't want their athletes tied or -- or tied to these allegations of rape? >> reporter: you know, i think that's what the investigation is trying to find out by the justice department and it was just learned this morning that the federal education department is also going to pursue a title ix investigation, specifically against members of the football team. >> gwen, i know you'll be doing many follow-up stories. stay in touch and weied like to stay in touch with this story as well. thanks for calling in. >> thank you. well, a high school player is being told that he needs to ride the pine and not for bad behavior. apparently he's too old, but this afternoon that may change. what he's doing to try and change the rules. a party? 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