The New York Times ran a front-page story [1] Tuesday critical of Guantanamo. The article described the case of an Afghan man who died in Guantanamo after five years' detention, allegedly on false charges of being a Taliban commander.

It turns out [2] the writer and co-author of the piece, Andy Worthington, was a well known critic of Guantanamo and of US policy. Now the paper's editors say they "were not aware" of the author's past writings on the subject.

Gee, maybe a simple google check [3] would have helped? The Huffington Post [4], The far-left Counterpunch [5], AlterNet [6], and this revealing blog name, Guantanamo Blog [7], may have shed some light on Worthington's bias? Antiwar Radio [8] also lists an Andy Worthington. Let's check out Amazon! It lists the book by Worthington entitled  The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 759 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison [9].

The NYT have apologized, but geeze, isn't a background check Journalism 101?

Thanks to all this  information from JammieWearingFool. [10]