Commentary
by Eric Boehlert
Justin Elliott at TMP Muckraker highlighted this Times flip-flop, and it deserves the attention. The Times’ lead, upper-right A1 story on Thursday was this [emphasis added]:
1 In 7 Detainees Rejoined Jihad, Pentagon Finds
In it, the Times’ Elizabeth Bumiller claimed the following:
An unreleased Pentagon report provides new details concluding that about one in seven of the 534 prisoners already transferred abroad from the detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba,…
