ali latifi, is this your understanding? says.s is what he the thing whereafter remember is , i have been seeing these reports since at least 2011 from the afghan government and now apparently from the u.s. government every day same week killed 60 0 or 50 or whoever and those are hard facts to prove. those are difficult thinings to prove because these operations take place usually at night and in rememote areas, in areas whee the press and others don't have access, where the government does not usually -- he can say he killed 1000 taliban, but what does that really mean? the if they were taliban, -- fell again for the third time and in the province on the west also came under heavy attack. if you are killing 1000 taliban, what does that really say? amy: we're going to go to break and come back to this discussion. we're talking to ali latifi in theanistan and matthew hoh center for international policy in washington, d.c., and we will be joined by two peace activists as dr. kelly as well inng who has worked afghanistan for mo

journalist ali latifi, with the latest on the situation in afghanistan from kabul tonight. i, thank you. ali: thank you. brent: u.s. whistleblower edward snowden's memoirs went on sale today and immediately, the u.s. justice department said it is suing snowden's for the books contents. it says his book violates the secrecy agreement that snowden promised to respect when he worked for the nsa. snowden could face life in prison if convicted of stealing classified information and leaking it to reporters back in 2013, but that would require snowden to first to be in the u.s., which he is not. for six years, he has lived in exile in russia. but his visa runs out at the end of this year. reporter: some see him as s a hero. others condemn him as america's most wanted trader -- traitor.. edward snowden told german television he is concerned abobt the fate of f future whistlebeblowers. >> i t tnk it is one of thehe saddest lessons from the storyr. what does it say to ththe next whistleblower and what does it say to the w world, aboutt ourselves? when the only place on americans can b