The Associated Press’s Gitmo Gotcha

How bad is the press’s reporting on Guantanamo? Many examples come to mind, but the most recent one is this Associated Press article by Kimberly Dozier.

Titled “US officials: Not so many Guantanamo re-offenders,” Dozier reports on the Director of National Intelligence’s (DNI’s) latest estimate of recidivism by former Guantanamo detainees. The new estimate, based on data available as of December 2011, shows an uptick from the DNI’s last publicly available statistics, which were released in December 2010. (Intelligence officials have provided updates in congressional testimony during the meantime as well.) The number of “confirmed” and “suspected” recidivists has increased from 150 to 167 during that one year span.