Ex-Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg is back in the news this week. On Sunday, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria interviewed Begg to get his perspective on the recently released report, written by Democrats on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, concerning the CIA’s controversial interrogation program. Zakaria teased Begg’s segment at the beginning of his show, saying, “Moazzam Begg wants an apology. He was held in U.S. prisons and says he was abused and witnessed torture. What is his response to the report? I will ask him.” Zakaria treated Begg’s claims of abuse as credible and barely challenged the ex-Gitmo detainee on his well-known extremist views.

On Monday, the Washington Post published a front-page story centered on Begg. The Post’s piece, authored by the Post’s London bureau chief Griff Witte, portrayed Begg in sympathetic terms. The Post sees Begg as a legitimate critic of the abuses and practices outlined in the Feinstein report. Witte did not question Begg’s claims regarding his treatment in U.S. custody and only mentioned Begg’s “hard-line Islamist sympathies” in passing. Witte made sure to note that Begg “denied participating in violence or being affiliated with terrorist organizations,” but the Post reporter could not be bothered to check the copious documentation illustrating otherwise — such as that included in, say, the Feinstein report. In addition to the front-page story, the Post gave extra space to Begg by publishing excerpts of his interview with Witte online.