March 12, 2009

ABC's Gibson repeated myth as fact that "some 60 former [Guantánamo] detainees ... have reappeared on foreign battlefields"

Media Matters - ABC's Gibson repeated myth as fact that "some 60 former [Guantánamo] detainees ... have reappeared on foreign battlefields"

ABC's Charles Gibson baselessly claimed that "some 60 former detainees ... have reappeared on foreign battlefields." In fact, according to the Pentagon, 18 former Guantánamo detainees have been "confirmed" to have "return[ed] to the fight."