CBS’s 60 Minutes profiled Matt Schrier, an American war photographer who was taken hostage in Syria earlier this year. He spent 210 days in captivity, where he was tortured, and is free now only because he escaped from his cell while his guards rested during Ramadan.

While telling the story of Schrier, Correspondent Scott Pelley notes that Schrier was not the only American in captivity, and that at least four other Americans are currently being held by the Islamic extremist organization that took Schrier. But at no point does Pelley mention or raise the question of whether the Obama administration might be of some assistance in seeing the return of American hostages.

Schrier was in Syria thanks to the help of the Free Syrian Army, which 60 Minutes describes as a “moderate rebel group supported by the United States”.

Schrier was leaving Syria on New Year’s Even when he was taken captive by members of Shabbat al-Nusra, a rebel group with ties to al-Qaeda that has been assuming a larger role in the Syrian conflict.

Schrier was held captive for over half a year, during which time his credit cards were stolen and used to buy car parts and sunglasses, and he was shoved into a car tire and beaten. After being moved multiple times, he was taken to a prison where his guard informed him that a fellow prisoner was also American:

I was like, what are you talking about? I didn’t believe him. He was speaking Arabic, you know, and he had the beard and everything. So I looked and it was just, "oh my God. He is an American." It was a curveball. I didn’t expect this at all. One of the first things I said is, "oh my God, they’re collecting us."

As Pelley notes, innocent Americans remain in the custody of Islamic extremist groups:

The collection is made of at least four Americans. The families of two of them don’t want us to use their names because they think that would make it harder to negotiate their release. Journalists Austin Tice and James Foley’s families asked us to show you their pictures to remind people that their loved ones are missing.

The piece would conclude by detailing how Schrier was able to free himself, find a member of the rebel army with whom he had originally been working, then get to the Turkish border, where he called the US Embassy. But he would not soon forget his time spent as a prisoner:

Seven months is a long time in the most dangerous country in the world.

Unfortunately, 60 Minutes ignored the question of whether anyone in the current administration is working to see that the remaining American prisoners might also be able to return home.