Now it turns out that the writer of the New York times article I cited as the media source for the story thinks that maybe the whole thing's bullshit as well.
TPMMuckraker reports that Elizabeth Bumiller told MSNBC today that "there is some debate about whether you should say 'returned' because some of them were perhaps not engaged in terrorism, as we know -- some of them are being held there on vague charges."
NYT meanwhile has quietly adjusted to that unfortunate reality, reports TPMMuckraker:
The paper has changed the lead and headline of the Web version of the story to reflect the uncertainty. The new headline reads: "Later Terror Link Cited for 1 in 7 Freed Detainees." And the lead: "An unreleased Pentagon report concludes that about one in seven of the 534 prisoners already transferred abroad from the detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are engaged in terrorism or militant activity, according to administration officials."
And even that's probably BS, since the Pentagon has previously included being interviewed for a documentary and for TV news as "returning to terrorism."
Really, there's no good reason to believe this "unreleased" (read "leaked at an opportune time for Gitmo apologists") report at all.
