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That too often the purpose of their patrols into dangerous area was not ordinary war time work like recognizance but rather to go look for this guy. joining me now is a reporter with "the new york times," and a pulitzer prize winning reporter, and author of "a represent and a prayer" as an experience as a prisoner held by the taliban seven months. good evening. >> good evening. >> andrew, let me start with you. how long did it take you to get these answers that do cast doubt on some of the more extreme charges against this former p.o.w.? >> we have been going through the, the war logs. since w...

To watch for signs of the missing american they would have been performing risky operations anyway adding it was quote, ludicrous to lay 100% of the blame for the deaths at sergeant bergdahl's feet. bergdahl's platoon mates felt that too often the purpose of their patrols into dangerous area was not ordinary war time work like recognizance but rather to go look for this guy. joining me now is a reporter with "the new york times," and a pulitzer prize winning reporter, and author of "a represent and a prayer" as an experience as a prisoner held by the taliban seven months. good evening. >> good...

Put himself in charge of the secrets, simply could not bear his own. the article provided ammunition for assange's critics. in the guardian, the media's obsessive focus on assange's character ignored his accomplishments. this is the one that can number the founder of wikileaks and the war logs and smuggling of edward snowden to safety. the debate continues over how much damage wikileaks has done to american foreign policy and national security interests, without assange, the world would not have details of america's two wars in the middle east. upon the release of july of 2010, the new york ti...

The war logs, were worth more than $5.5 million. and it's not hard to see why. private manning's leaks wrote a lot of the news reports in 2010. what the world now knows because of bradley manning is not in dispute, and it is significant. >> the documents reveal that even as pakistan accepted billions in u.s. aid, pakistani intelligence officials allegedly conspired with taliban leaders in may 2007. the taliban shot down a u.s. helicopter with a shoulder-fired missile, killing seven soldiers. but nato commanders concealed that fact. more than 66,000 iraqi civilians were killed even though the p...

After garn war logs were released, suddenly there was a transformation of discussion about these wars and what had been hidden from us. that was where the focus should have been, and unfortunately too much focused on assange. i think in part the administration wanted to shift the focus. they're looking to find a way to scapegoat manning. >> make him an oddball. if we focus on the messengers, focus on these people, we don't need to have the big heart discussions. >> there are these moments. gitmo is one, we'll have a conversation about that later on in the show, but heather, we go through these...