Latest Fact Checks

Sotomayor’s experience does not significantly outstrip other justices

By Angie Drobnic Holan

May 26, 2009

"Walking in the door (Sonia Sotomayor) would bring more experience on the bench, and more varied experience on the bench, than anyone currently serving on…

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RNC claims Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor said judges make policy

May 26, 2009

Judge Sotomayor has said "that policy is made on the U.S. Court of Appeals."

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Colin Powell overstates Bush-Cheney differences on closing Guantanamo

May 26, 2009

Cheney is "disagreeing with President Bush's policy. President Bush stated repeatedly to international audiences and to the country that he wanted to close Guantanamo."

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Dick Cheney claims Blair said high-value information came from controversial enhanced interrogation techniques

May 22, 2009

"President Obama's own director of national intelligence, Admiral Blair, put it this way: 'High-value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and…

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Dick Cheney says only three terror suspects were ever waterboarded

May 21, 2009

"You've heard endlessly about waterboarding. It happened to three terrorists."

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No inmate has escaped from federal supermax prison

By Catharine Richert

May 21, 2009

"Nobody has ever escaped from one of our federal 'supermax' prisons."

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Bachmann claims ACORN has access to $8.5 billion in federal money

May 21, 2009

ACORN "could get up to $8.5 billion more tax dollars despite being under investigation for voter registration fraud in a dozen states."

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Durbin correct that convicted terrorists are in federal prisons

By Catharine Richert

May 21, 2009

"The reality is, we are holding some of the most dangerous terrorists in the world right now in our federal prisons, including the mastermind of…

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Some private health insurance can survive public option

By Angie Drobnic Holan

May 19, 2009

A public option for health care would end private insurance "because the private insurance people will not be able to compete with a government option."

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120 million “deprived” of health care is not correct

By Angie Drobnic Holan

May 19, 2009

The Democrats propose "a government-controlled health care plan that will deprive roughly 120 million Americans of their current health care coverage."

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Democrats still pondering how to pay for healthcare

By Angie Drobnic Holan

May 19, 2009

"Democrats have failed to answer the most basic question of how they want to pay for the more than $1 trillion of health care spending."

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Bibles sent to soldier in Afghanistan for local distribution were confiscated and destroyed

May 18, 2009

"The Pentagon under the Obama administration has just acknowledged seizing and burning the privately owned Bibles of American soldiers serving in Afghanistan."

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