You are right!
Yep, they are trying to cover their tracks for giving him American citizen rights, right to a lawyer, flew his family here (that’s a real punishment, right?), and that they did not have the HIG setup after destroying what Bush had put in place, and the fact came out they didn’t extrapolate info from the baby, poor terrorist....
ALL PR deception.
Sometimes that’s a strategy. It could be not even true but they want someone to think it’s true. Or maybe I read too many crime novels, but I do think they do that.