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Latest Fact-Checks In Afghanistan

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Occupy Democrats
stated on August 15, 2021 an Instagram post:

Donald Trump in 2020 "said he trusted the Taliban and then set in motion an even earlier exit" from Afghanistan.

Half-True

By Tom Kertscher • August 17, 2021

Viral image
stated on August 15, 2021 an Instagram post:

Says CNN said “Taliban fighters responsibly wearing masks.”

False

By Ciara O'Rourke • August 17, 2021

Viral image
stated on August 16, 2021 an Instagram post:

Says CNN and other news organizations tweeted that a journalist was executed in Kabul by Taliban fighters.

False

By Ciara O'Rourke • August 17, 2021

Viral image
stated on August 15, 2021 a Facebook post:

Photo shows CNN chyron about Afghanistan that says, “Violent but mostly peaceful transfer of power.”

False

By Ciara O'Rourke • August 16, 2021

Mark Pocan
stated on May 21, 2021 Twitter:

Says withdrawing troops from Afghanistan could save the U.S. $50 billion.

Mostly False

By Laura Schulte • June 8, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on February 15, 2021 a Facebook post:

Says Joe Biden “helps build Afghanistan’s pipeline.”

False

By Tom Kertscher • February 18, 2021

X posts
stated on October 13, 2020 a videos, articles and screenshots:

Says Joe Biden and Barack Obama “directly participated in a plot to have #SealTeam6 MURDERED, then arranged a massive cash deal as part of a cover up.”

Pants on Fire!

By Daniel Funke • October 14, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on February 2, 2020 a Facebook post:

A list of 11 names are “Marines that gave their lives this week for everyone in this country. There is no media for them, not even a mention of their names.”

False

By Tom Kertscher • March 20, 2020

Viral image
stated on January 6, 2020 a Facebook post:

Says Joe Biden "murdered U.S. Navy Seals."

False

By Samantha Putterman, Ciara O'Rourke • January 10, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on April 28, 2018 a speech in Washington, Mich.:

"We have spent $7 trillion, trillion with a T, $7 trillion in the Middle East."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • May 1, 2018

Jill Stein
stated on October 17, 2016 a Green Party rally at Huston-Tillotson University in Austin:

"We’re already bombing seven countries."

True

By W. Gardner Selby • October 21, 2016

Todd Wilcox
stated on May 20, 2016 a newspaper interview:

"I can tell you that the enhanced interrogation techniques that have since been banned by this administration — specifically waterboarding — work."

False

By Joshua Gillin • May 24, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on March 22, 2016 a speech at Stanford University.:

When it comes to fighting terrorism, "Another thing we know that does not work, based on lots of empirical evidence, is torture."

True

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 30, 2016

Jack Reed
stated on January 20, 2016 a letter:

"It is rare that a retirement grade determination is conducted for an officer previously retired from the U.S. armed forces."

True

By Mark Reynolds • January 31, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on January 10, 2016 Ottumwa, Iowa, on NBC's "Meet the Press":

The five Guantanamo detainees swapped for Bowe Bergdahl are "back on the battlefield."

False

By Lauren Carroll • January 10, 2016

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."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • August 20, 2015

Richard Clarke
stated on April 26, 2015 a panel on ABC "This Week":

Said President Barack Obama "said he was going to stop (signature strikes)."

Mostly False

By Lauren Carroll • April 28, 2015

Bret Baier
stated on January 20, 2015 an analysis of Obama's speech:

In President Barack Obama’s 2015 State of the Union address, "the words ‘al-Qaida’ were never used, the first time those words have not been used in a State of the Union address since February 2001."

True

By Katie Sanders • January 21, 2015

Doonesbury
stated on January 11, 2015 the Sunday comics:

The CIA paid two psychologists $81 million "to develop and run their torture program."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • January 12, 2015

Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on December 14, 2014 a TV interview:

The United States "decided waterboarding was torture back when we court-martialed American soldiers for waterboarding Philippine insurgents in the Philippine revolution."

True

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 23, 2014

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