I see that Politico's Michael Calderone got a comment from the Times' Washington bureau chief Dean Baquet regarding the newspaper decision to alter, midday Thursday, its A1 scoops that 1 out of 7 released detainees had “returned” to terrorism. (See here.)

Here's what Baquet emailed Calderone:

Reading some of the criticism it seems that people are saying it undercut the story. It did not. The story was about the estimate of the number of people who ended up, by DOD"s account, as being engaged in terrorism or militant activity after leaving Gitmo. That still stands. The change was an acknowledgment that some assert that not everyone in Gitmo is truly a terrorist. Some critics have said that Gitmo is also filled with people who aren't truly terrorists.

Anyone who is reading a significant retreat in the story, or as us somehow saying the story is wrong is looking for politics where it ain't.