. >> reporter: ryan boyko returned from his trip to liberia three weeks ago. he worked on medical computer system, having no direct contact with ebola patients. after developing a low-grade fever, he went to the hospital, but tested negative for the virus two times. still, he's under a mandatory quarantine in connecticut. there's even a police officer parked outside his home, as well. we spoke to him via skype. >> it makes me feel criminalized. you know, not trusted. i had clearly been willing to let go of my personal freedom for some days when it made sense. >> reporter: presently nine states have issued their own guidelines that call for some sort of mandatory quarantine or form of quarantine for people returning from west africa who had contact, direct contact with an ebola patient. now, governors such as new jersey's chris christie has said ultimately they have the responsibility to protect the public health and the public safety of the people of their state. >> pelley: michelle, thank you. we will see more of your interview with ryan boyko tomorrow first

unit ryan boyko is one of them.travelled to help them set up a computer datagis help them in their fight against ebola. mr. boyko has tested negative for ebola but under state orders of the government of connecticut, he's been quarantined at home for the past 12 days and kocounting with an armed police officer standing guard at his door. he's decided now to talk publicly about his quarantine. joining us via skype is ryan boyko in connecticut. thanks for being with us. i appreciate your decision to talk with us. >> thanks for having me on. >> what were you doing in liberia? how long were you there? >> i was there for three weeks. i was helping them build their contact tracing system. so contact tracing is essentially just identifying and following up with everyone who has been in contact with somebody who later tested positive for ebola. and in every other epidemic, contact tracing and then immediately isolating those contacts that become sick is what ended the epidemic. just the same thing should apply to this epide

student ryan boyko is one of them. he traveled to liberia, set up a computer data base to help them in their fight against ebola. since returning to connecticut, mr. boyko has tested negative for ebola. but under state orders, he has been quarantined at home for the past 12 days and counting with an armed plif standing guard outside his door. he has decided now to talk publicly about his quarantine for the first time. >> well, thanks for having me on. >> so, first of all, what were you doing in liberia? how long were you there and what were you working on? >> i was there for three weeks and i was helping them build their contact tracing system. contact tracing is essentially identifying and following up with everyone who's been in contact with somebody what's tested positive for ebola. and in every epidemic, contact tracing and immediately ice lating those contacts who had become sick is ending the epidemic. the same thing should ally. it's just larger and requires more effort now. >> when you were there working on tho

his name is ryan boyko, who spent time on a tracking system. he was not exposed to one person with ebola symptoms although he did cross paths with the ebola cameraman before he became symptomatic. and before he came home, he twice tested negative for ebola, he was, the doctor said, one person in connecticut who didn't have a virus. he is forced now under quarantine with an armed officer outside his door. ryan, i just want to be extra clear, you don't have ebola, you have never had ebola. you had no contact with anyone who has symptoms of ebola in west africa. you have been tested for ebola. the test came back negative and yet tonight you remain under state-ordered quarantine in your apartment with a police officer standing out there to make sure you don't get out or anybody is in. has anybody given you a reasonable explanation for why that is? >> yes, sadly that is the case, all that is true. nobody from the state department of public health has contacted me at all to tell me why i am in quarantine. and the connecticut guidelines as you alluded

louis scloous interview with yale graduate student ryan boyko that was released from a it 2 1-day kwaurn fine after testing negative for ebola. we'll ask him what it's like to spend three weeks in isolation, and what he thinks about the situation going on in maine coming up later this hour. >> mcfarland is a security analyst and former deputy assistant secretary of defense during the reagan administration. 20 to 30 former gitmo detainees. weren't these supposed to be the people that were just perfectly fine to leave that situation in cuba and go back home? they would never commit acts of terror again, right? >> in the presence of baghdad where the sunni and military officers were sent and they shared cells with a lot of the radical imams. they then got together, and that's the birth of isis. we know that al qaeda grew up in the prisons -- >> president obama's very first order -- was to close gitmo, and that has never happened. so, first of all, why and would that have been an even bigger problem? >> well, first of all, i think we should say that the bush administration also released pris