Latest Fact-Checks In Afghanistan

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Patrick Testin
Patrick Testin
stated on August 29, 2021 TV interview
"The vast majority of the (refugees) coming into Fort McCoy are not the SIVs" and some have "no documentation at all."
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By Alan Hovorka • October 13, 2021
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on August 17, 2021 on social media
The man next to Mike Pompeo in a November 2020 photo “is the guy the Trump administration helped get out of jail in 2018 and who is now the 'president' of Afghanistan."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 18, 2021
Matt Wuerker
Matt Wuerker
stated on August 4, 2015 a political cartoon on Politico
"The U.S. has now spent more on reconstructing Afghanistan than was spent on the Marshall Plan and the reconstruction of Europe."
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By Jon Greenberg • August 20, 2015
Doonesbury
Doonesbury
stated on January 11, 2015 the Sunday comics
The CIA paid two psychologists $81 million "to develop and run their torture program."
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By Jon Greenberg • January 12, 2015
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on June 4, 2014 a broadcast of the "Rachel Maddow Show"
In February, John McCain "suggested" the Bergdahl-Taliban swap that he now calls "outrageous and dangerous."
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By Jon Greenberg • June 10, 2014
Robert Gibbs
Robert Gibbs
stated on January 12, 2014 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"We have been in Afghanistan longer now than we have been in any foreign land conducting a war in our nation’s history."
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By Katie Sanders • January 12, 2014
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on September 9, 2012 an appearance on 'This Week.'
Says he and Mitt Romney "always said that we agree with the 2014 deadline" for leaving Afghanistan.
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By Molly Moorhead • September 11, 2012
Alan Grayson
Alan Grayson
stated on September 1, 2011 an e-mail to supporters about his opposition to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars
"$360 million of our tax dollars went straight to ... the Taliban."
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By Katie Sanders • September 15, 2011
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on July 6, 2011 an interview on NPR’s “Tell Me More” with Michel Martin
Says for the first time in the history of the United States, the government cut taxes during wartime
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By Erin O'Neill • July 14, 2011
Marcy Kaptur
Marcy Kaptur
stated on May 9, 2011 an article in Politico
"A gallon (of gasoline) delivered to the front lines for our troops in Afghanistan cost more than $400."
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By Sabrina Eaton • May 23, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 14, 2011 remarks at a campaign fundraiser
Says Paul Ryan "voted for two wars that were unpaid for, voted for the Bush tax cuts that were unpaid for, voted for the prescription drug bill that cost as much as my health care bill -- but wasn't paid for."  
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By Dave Umhoefer • April 27, 2011
Elizabeth Dennigan
Elizabeth Dennigan
stated on June 28, 2010 a statement on her campaign website
"We are amassing most of our military strength in a country where fewer than 100 members of al Qaeda remain."
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By Cynthia Needham • August 13, 2010
Joe Lieberman
Joe Lieberman
stated on May 6, 2010 a press conference
The president can "authorize the killing of a U.S. citizen who fights for a foreign terrorist organization."
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By Louis Jacobson • May 11, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 1, 2009 a speech at the United States Military Academy.
"In the last few months alone, we have apprehended extremists within our borders who were sent here from the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan to commit new acts of terror."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 3, 2009
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on November 29, 2009 ABC's 'This Week with George Stephanopoulos'
"If you want to talk firsts for Bush, this was the first time in American history that a president took us into a war and cut taxes."
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November 30, 2009