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Garbage In, Garbage Out

by David Kurtz
12.31.09 | 8:23 am

That big ABC News report on Monday that pointed the finger at two former Gitmo detainees as organizers of the Detroit bombing attempt turns out to have had a key fact wrong. ABC has now corrected the report, but not before it got picked up far and wide.

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