(CNN) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday denounced the release of "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh as "unexplainable and unconscionable""There is something deeply troubling and wrong about this," Pompeo said in an interview with Fox & Friends. He will spend three years in supervised release, living in Virginia subject to the direction of his probation officer, his lawyer tells CNN. Lindh went to Pakistan in 2000 and trained with a radical Islamic group there before moving to Afghanistan and joining the Taliban, according to documentation of his interrogations. He admitted to participating in a Taliban uprising at a detention camp in northern Afghanistan that killed hundreds of prisoners and a CIA officer, Johnny Michael Spann. Johnny Micheal Spann was one of ours," said Pompeo, a former CIA director.

Source: CNN May 23, 2019 15:22 UTC