From Media Matters:
Since President Barack Obama signed an executive order requiring that the Pentagon's detention facilities at Guantánamo be closed within a year, numerous media figures and outlets have repeated or failed to challenge the claim that 61 former detainees held there have returned to the battlefield. In fact, the figure, which comes from the Pentagon, includes 43 former prisoners who are suspected of, but have not been confirmed as, having "return[ed] to the fight."I'd like to know who in the Pentagon outright lied to the American people, in an effort to lobby on behalf of keeping Gitmo open. Then I'd like to know when Obama is going to fire that person. It really is time that someone sent the Pentagon a message that this lying thing will no longer be tolerated.
