Last month, the New York Times ran a front page story titled “1 In 7 Detainees Returned to Jihad, Pentagon Finds.” Relying on a unpublicized DoD report, the article said that “74 prisoners released from Guantánamo have returned to terrorism, making for a recidivism rate of nearly 14 percent.”

the Times acknowledges the error:

The article said that the Pentagon had found about one in seven of former Guantánamo prisoners had “returned to terrorism or other militant activity,” or as the headline put it, had “rejoined jihad.”

Those phrases accepted a premise of the report that all the former prisoners had been engaged in terrorism before their detention

Many of the 29 are simply described as associating with terrorists or training with terrorists

[t]he article should have distinguished

to say that about one in 20

were now said to be engaging in terrorism.

McClatchy’s

asking, “How many of these confirmed and suspected jihadis became such because of their experiences at Guantanamo and elsewhere? ”