During Wednesday's White House press briefing, ABC News' Jonathan Karl engaged Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz in a line of questioning related to the Obama Administration's release of five high ranking Taliban terrorists from the detainee center at Guantanamo Bay in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. 

Karl was pressing Schultz to explain the White House position on not negotiating with ISIS terrorists for the release of American hostages while at the same time, negotiating with the Taliban to release Bergdahl. Schultz explained that there was no inconsistency in policy because the Taliban was not a terrorist group. He called them an "armed insurgency."

KARL: "You say the United States government does not give into demands, does not pay ransom, but how is what the Jordanians are talking about doing any different than what the United States did to get the release of Bergdahl, releasing prisoners hold at Guantanamo Bay to the Taliban, which is clearly a terrorist organization."

SCHULTZ: "Sure. As you know this was highly discussed at the time and prisoner swaps are traditional end of conflict, interaction that happens as they were in Afghanistan [wind down]. We felt like it was the appropriate thing to do. The president's bedrock commitment as commander in chief is to leave no men or women behind. That was the principle he was operating under."

KARL: "Isn't that what Jordanians are operating under?"

SCHULTZ: "Well, I think Jon, the --"

KARL: "I mean, Taliban is still conducting terrorist attacks so you cannot really say that the war is ended in this part as they are concerned."

SCHULTZ: "Well, I'd also point out that the Taliban is an armed insurgency, ISIL is a terrorist group. So we don't make concession to terrorist groups. We feel --"[crosstalk]

KARL: "You don't think Taliban is a terrorist group?"

SCHULTZ: "I don't think that the Taliban, um -- the Taliban is an armed insurgency. This was the winding down of the war in Afghanistan and that's why this arrangement was dealt. Our view is, as the president said at the time, is as commander in chief when he sends men and women into armed combat he doesn't want to leave anyone behind."

The new euphemism for the Taliban may be a preemptive move to blunt the potentially damaging news that the US Army is reportedly poised to charge Bergdahl with desertion. If Bergdahl is convicted of desertion then the narrative would be that the Obama Administration negotiated with a terrorist organization and traded five high-ranking terrorists in exchange for a deserter.  Apparently, if the Taliban is an "armed insurgency" instead of a terrorist organization, that makes things all better.