BANFIELD: We're learning more, or at least hearing more, about the conditions under which Bowe Bergdahl was held, from the people who actually did the holding. My CNN colleague Nic Robertson has been in touch with Taliban sources. He joins me now with some accounts that don't seem to quite jibe with what Bergdahl himself has reportedly told his superiors. Perhaps understanding, Nic, that the Taliban are masters of propaganda and have been so for over a decade, this may not be a surprise, but what are they saying about Bowe's captivity?</s>NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Sure, this is a source that doesn't claim to know everything about Bergdahl's captivity, and this is also a source who has proven accurate on other Westerners held by the same Taliban in the same area, information that didn't seem to stand up at the time but later stood the test of time. So a source who has some level of credibility, but absolutely you're right to put it in this context, that the Taliban are masters of spin and certainly want to spin this in their favor. This is what the source is saying to us right now. He's saying that in the early part of his capture Bergdahl was able to get free, break away from a house that he was in. He was on the run for three days. But the source said the reason he wasn't able to get any further, get away completely is because the Taliban controlled the whole area, that they policed him up, put him in another compound with much more security around him. At this stage, Bergdahl would have realized, according to this source, that there was no way for him to escape.
Taliban Offers Different Account of Bergdahl's Imprisonment