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Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
stated on 2009-05-21 in a speech at the American Enterprise Institute:
"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 provided a deeper understanding of the al-Qaida organization that was attacking this country.'"
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • May 22, 2009
Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
stated on 2009-05-21 in a speech at the American Enterprise Institute:
"You've heard endlessly about waterboarding. It happened to three terrorists."
True
By Robert Farley • May 21, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2009-05-21 in a speech.:
"Nobody has ever escaped from one of our federal 'supermax' prisons."
True
By Catharine Richert • May 21, 2009
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on 2009-05-06 in a press release:
ACORN "could get up to $8.5 billion more tax dollars despite being under investigation for voter registration fraud in a dozen states."
False
By Robert Farley • May 21, 2009
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin
stated on 2009-05-20 in 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
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on 2009-05-17 in an interview on Fox News Sunday.:
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."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 19, 2009
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on 2009-05-12 in an e-mail:
The Democrats propose "a government-controlled health care plan that will deprive roughly 120 million Americans of their current health care coverage."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 19, 2009
Roy Blunt
Roy Blunt
stated on 2009-05-14 in a news release:
"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."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 19, 2009
Pray in Jesus Name Project
Pray in Jesus Name Project
stated on 2009-05-17 in an advertisement :
"The Pentagon under the Obama administration has just acknowledged seizing and burning the privately owned Bibles of American soldiers serving in Afghanistan."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • May 18, 2009
Mark Sanford
Mark Sanford
stated on 2009-04-30 in a commentary piece:
"Our government has now 'spent, lent, or committed' $12.8 trillion in its attempt to blunt the recession."
True
By Robert Farley • May 15, 2009
Steve King
Steve King
stated on 2009-05-06 in a Fox News interview:
The federal Hate Crimes Prevention Act bill would create "special protection for pedophiles."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • May 14, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2009-05-13 in 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 2009-05-10 in 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
Miss California USA
Miss California USA
stated on 2009-05-12 in a news conference.:
"The president of the United States ... agrees with me" that marriage should be between a man and a woman.
True
By Robert Farley • May 12, 2009
MoveOn.org
MoveOn.org
stated on 2009-05-08 in a Web ad:
Senators who have accepted millions in campaign contributions from the financial industry voted against allowing bankruptcy judges to modify home mortgages.
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 12, 2009
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on 2009-04-23 in a news conference.:
"We were not, I repeat, were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used."
False
By Robert Farley • May 12, 2009
Conservatives for Patients' Rights
Conservatives for Patients' Rights
stated on 2009-04-27 in a television ad:
The economic stimulus bill created a council that's "modeled after the national board that controls Britain’s health system."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 11, 2009
Chain email
Chain email
stated on 2009-05-02 in a chain e-mail:
Obama used $20 million in federal money "to emmigrate (sic) Hamas Refugees to the USA."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • May 8, 2009
Chain email
Chain email
stated on 2009-05-02 in a chain e-mail:
Obama's "first call (as president) to any head of state was to Mahmoud Abbas, leader of Fatah party in the Palestinian territory."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • May 8, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2009-05-07 in a speech at the White House.:
Pay-as-you-go "is the principle that helped transform large deficits into surpluses in the 1990s."
Half-True
By Bill Adair • May 7, 2009
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