The Department of Defense announced on Thursday that two Guantanamo detainees had been transferred to El Salvador. The DoD did not name them in its press release, but the New York Times identified the men as two Uighurs (Muslims from western China): Abdul Razak and Ahmed Mohamed. 

Most journalists long ago decided that they weren’t going to do much real reporting on the detainees held at Guantanamo. Even though thousands of pages of documents have been either declassified or leaked from Guantanamo, they are barely ever consulted in the media’s coverage.