"The way the story was "presented" changes the story." It certainly does, Ollie.
We discover that the man received multiple internal injuries from the people who captured him, and instead of having him examined by a doctor when he began to collapse, the CIA people assumed he was "playing possum", thus contributing to his death.
The issue, actually, is that a man was beaten and neglected while a prisoner of the United States, and he died of a combination of the injuries and the neglect. Those, um, details are not in dispute.
I like the part about how they were "nervous" after they found out he was dead. It almost sounds like they broke somebody's window with their baseball.