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Latest Fact-Checks In Terrorism

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Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on May 9, 2010 an interview on ABC's This Week
Says federal law enforcement officers cut off questioning of the Christmas Day underwear bomber by giving him a Miranda warning after 30 minutes of questioning.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 10, 2010
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on May 5, 2010 an op ed article
"We can prevent terror suspects from boarding an airplane, but the FBI doesn't have the power to block them from buying dynamite or an AK-47."
True
May 7, 2010
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on March 2, 2010 his book "No Apology."
Several times, Obama "has apologized for what he deems to be American arrogance, dismissiveness, and derision; for dictating solutions, for acting unilaterally ... ."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 15, 2010
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 16, 2010 an interview on "Face the Nation"
"There have been three people tried and convicted by the last administration in military courts. Two are walking the street right now."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 16, 2010
Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
stated on February 14, 2010 an interview on ABC's This Week
President Barack Obama's "initial response when we heard about the Christmas underwear bomber" was to say that "this was the act of an isolated extremist."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 15, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 7, 2010 an interview on CBS
The Bush administration prosecuted 190 suspected terrorists in federal courts.
Mostly False
February 13, 2010
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on January 8, 2010 an interview on 'Good Morning America'
"We had no domestic attacks under Bush."
Pants on Fire!
By Aaron Sharockman • January 8, 2010
Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
stated on December 30, 2009 a statement to Politico.
President Obama "doesn't ... want to admit we're at war."
Pants on Fire!
By Bill Adair • January 3, 2010
Chain email
Chain email
stated on November 13, 2009 an e-mail circulated to many people.
Maj. Nidal Hasan, the man accused of the Fort Hood shootings, "was an ADVISOR to the Obama Administration."
Pants on Fire!
By Catharine Richert • November 13, 2009
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on November 2, 2009 a comment on his television show
Guantanamo Bay detainees will get the H1N1 vaccine.
True
By Catharine Richert • November 11, 2009
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on September 3, 2009 his television program
Van Jones signed a petition indicating he "thinks the Bush administration blew up the World Trade Center and covered it up."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 8, 2009
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on July 7, 2009 a GOP survey
The Obama administration offered "$900 million to Hamas, a recognized terrorist organization, to rebuild Gaza."
False
July 14, 2009
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on July 7, 2009 a GOP survey
"Under the new and little known 'global justice' initiative," the Obama administration has ordered FBI agents to "read Miranda Rights to high-value terrorist detainees captured on the battlefield."
Half-True
July 14, 2009
Steny Hoyer
Steny Hoyer
stated on June 16, 2009 a press availability.
"Some 500 detainees were released from Guantanamo during the Bush administration."
Mostly True
By Bill Adair • June 18, 2009
Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
stated on May 21, 2009 a speech at the American Enterprise Institute
"You've heard endlessly about waterboarding. It happened to three terrorists."
True
May 21, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 21, 2009 a speech.
"Nobody has ever escaped from one of our federal 'supermax' prisons."
True
By Catharine Richert • May 21, 2009
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin
stated on May 20, 2009 a speech on the Senate floor.
"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 the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 'shoe bomber,' the 'Unabomber,' and many others."
True
By Catharine Richert • May 21, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 13, 2009 legal filings
On releasing photographs depicting the abuse of prisoners.
Full Flop
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 14, 2009
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on May 10, 2009 a television interview
Democrats in Congress "had control since January of 2007. They haven't passed a law making waterboarding illegal. They haven't gone into any of these things and changed law."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 13, 2009
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on April 23, 2009 a news conference.
"We were not, I repeat, were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used."
False
May 12, 2009
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