. >> carol rosenberg, thank you so much. thanks for being with us today. >> former nsa contractor edward snowden making headlines once again with another document leak shedding new light on the u.s. government surveillance capabilities. according to top secret documents obtained from snowden and published by the new york times, the nsa is collecting millions of images a day from tech and social media for use in the facial recognition programs. it is becoming extremely important to intelligence agencies to try to track suspected terrorists and other targets. in an interview with brazil's globo news, snowden revealed he has applied tore asylum in several countries including brazil. the asylum in russia was granted on in a temporary basis expiring at the end of july. a boatload!

you are on with carol rosenberg.re that one of the detainees is wanted for war crimes by the united nations? this was a capitulation. and,o you let the taliban they can pick those five. who mayack a deserter even have collaborated. this is the worst thing. this is the biggest scandal yet. guest: a couple of points. it is true that they did choose these men. they did ask for them as part of the exchange. we had seen three or four of these men as negotiations for years. anybody who has been following issue shouldion not a been surprised that these five men were the ones let go. in terms of the allegation of rights watchuman has identified two of these men to atrocities prior to september 1998 during the civil war in which the taliban and were attacking shia prisoners in the sharif area. thousands of civilians died. they were in the taliban at the time. there has been an effort to try to get them to face some sort of justice. the way the bush administration constructed the military commissions at guantanamo and the way

. >> carol rosenberg, thanks very much. nic robertson, of course, thanks to you as well. that's it for me. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." let's step into the "crossfire" with van jones and s.e. cupp. >>> there are serious questions about president obama's prisoner swap with of all people the taliban. >> but the deal actually did get our last captured u.s. soldier out of afghanistan. i think some republicans want to send him back. the debate starts now. >> tonight on "crossfire," the president trades five u.s. enemies for an army sergeant. >> the united states of america does not ever leave our men and women in uniform behind. >> republicans accuse obama of breaking the law. >> the obama administration didn't notify anyone in this process. >> on the left, van jones. on the right, s.e. cupp. in the "crossfire," senator sheldon whitehouse, a rhode island democrat. and senator john hovan, a north dakota republican. did the president set a dangerous precedent or bring home a hero? tonight on "crossfire." >>> welcome to "crossfire." i'm van jones on the left. >> i'm

and reporter carol rosenberg of the "miami herald." er journalist. carol, you've been tracking these five for a long time. how dangerous, potentially, are they? they've been prisoners at guantanamo bay for 12 or 13 years. >> well, you know, the three of them came on that very first flight, if you remember the picture of 20 men on their knees in orange jumpsuits who were described as the worst of the worst. they were among them. but i can tell you that from my reporting at guantanamo, they were cooperative, collaborative, communal captives. meaning they lived in, you know, medium security, were able to pray with other detainees, eat with other dean dtainees. i understood they were neither troublemakers nor hunger strikers and were not considered dangerous to the guards at gitmo. but as we know, you know, the president and senator mccain and the others get to see the classified files and so we know that they come from the defense and intelligence and political and military parts of the taliban which bleed over into each other and the ques

let me bring an expert on guantanamo bay, carol rosenberg, and reuters investigator david rhodes.ears. i'm sure your seven months felt like five years probably, but he has not talked to his family yet. we understand his sister wrote him a letter which he hasn't read or responded to. give us some kind of idea what this guy is going through right now. >> again, i was held one-tenth of the time he was held. i don't find it unusual that he needs time to reacclimate. i was kidnapped with an afghan journalist who spoke english. he's been completely alone, only around these young taliban guards that only spoke the local language poshta. >> carol, we need to listen to senator mccain, first of all. so much of this back-and-forth has been about, was this the right deal to make, to give up this much for bowe bergdahl. let's listen to senator mccain and then i'll bring you in. >> even if we close guantanamo, we'll send them to facilities in the united states of america. that's been the plan all along. if you think we were just going to release everybody, like khalid shaikh mohammed khalid sha