Richard Oppel correspondent for The New York Times reports from Kabul, where he attended a press conference about the released documents. Although the documents did criticize Afghan government and security forces, a spokesman for President Karzai focused on the civilian casualities and the complicity of the spy agency. Oppel says he asked if there was anything that angered the president in the documents and was told that there wasn't.

Oppel takes a closer look at the documents. He also follows the story of the two American sailors captured in Afghanistan by the Taliban.

American Special Operations forces have been working to weaken the Taliban for several weeks in Kandahar as part of a pending operation in the Southern Afghanistan city. Earlier today a series of bombs struck the city and the U.N. told 200 Afghan employees to stay in their homes on account of the deteriorating security in the region. The operation is being touted as a "make or break" battle in the Afghan war.

The fate of 248 detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center in Cuba has been in the spotlight. We’ve heard much less about the 600 detainees currently being held at Bagram Air Force base in Afghanistan. New reporting from our partners at The New York Times shows that the detainees at Bagram present the U.S. with yet another massive challenge. A federal judge ruled on April 2 that some foreign prisoners have the right to use U.S. courts to challenge their detention. For more, The Takeaway talks to Richard Oppel Jr. the New York Times reporter who has been following this story.

For more, read Richard Oppel Jr.'s article, U.S. Captain Hears Pleas for Afghan Detainee, in today's New York Times.