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Ana Navarro
Ana Navarro
stated on December 17, 2014 an interview on CNN's "Anderson Cooper":
"A lot of what (Cuba’s) survival depends on is Venezuelan oil money, which is drying up."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • December 18, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 17, 2014 a press conference:
In the U.S. agreement with the Cuban government, "no commitment was made to allowing the establishment of political parties or to even begin the semblance of a transition to a democracy."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 18, 2014
Sergey Lavrov
Sergey Lavrov
stated on December 16, 2014 an interview with the French television network France 24:
"Congress is a very special group of people. More than 80 percent of them never left the United States."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • December 17, 2014
Peter King
Peter King
stated on December 9, 2014 a radio show appearance:
"Nobody suffered any lasting injuries" from the CIA interrogation program.
Pants on Fire!
By Steve Contorno • December 15, 2014
Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
stated on December 10, 2014 an interview on Fox News:
Terrorist detainees "were not covered by the Geneva Convention. They were unlawful combatants. And under those circumstances, they were not entitled to the normal kinds of courtesies and treatment."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 14, 2014
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on November 12, 2014 a media availability:
The climate-change agreement between the United States and China "requires the Chinese to do nothing at all for 16 years."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 19, 2014
Xi Jinping
Xi Jinping
stated on November 12, 2014 a press conference in Beijing.:
"China has made enormous progress in its human rights. That is a fact recognized by all the people in the world."
Mostly False
By Steve Contorno • November 17, 2014
Allen West
Allen West
stated on October 20, 2014 a tweet:
"U.S. troops are getting only 4 hours of Ebola training before deployment to Liberia."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • October 23, 2014
Tim Murphy
Tim Murphy
stated on October 19, 2014 an interview on Fox News Sunday:
Blocking travel from countries with Ebola should be possible because President Barack Obama "has sealed off Israel in the past."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 21, 2014
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on September 19, 2014 a debate in the Rio Grande Valley.:
"I’ve been involved in prosecuting a terrorist member of ISIS."
False
By Dylan Baddour • October 3, 2014
Bruce Braley
Bruce Braley
stated on September 28, 2014 a debate:
"I recently had the opportunity to vote to give the president limited authority to begin strikes against terrorists in Iraq and Syria."
False
By Louis Jacobson • October 1, 2014
Ryan Lizza
Ryan Lizza
stated on September 22, 2014 a tweet:
"Countries bombed: Obama 7, Bush 4"
True
By Jon Greenberg • September 25, 2014
Brit Hume
Brit Hume
stated on September 21, 2014 a broadcast of "Fox News Sunday":
Says President Barack Obama is "sending a much larger (force) " to deal with Ebola "than ISIS is getting."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • September 23, 2014
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on September 15, 2014 a post on InfoWars.com:
"The U.S. State Department has ordered 160,000 Hazmat suits for Ebola, prompting concerns that the federal government is anticipating the rapid spread" of the virus.
Half-True
By Derek Tsang • September 19, 2014
Media Matters
Media Matters
stated on September 16, 2014 a post on the Media Matters blog:
Says Fox News gave Republican senators twice the air time as Democrats during a hearing about the Islamic State.
True
By Jon Greenberg • September 18, 2014
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on September 15, 2014 Internet posts:
"Three of five detainees swapped (for Bowe Bergdahl) are now ISIS leaders."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • September 18, 2014
Chris Matthews
Chris Matthews
stated on September 10, 2014 a broadcast on MSNBC:
Says Dick Cheney "de-Ba’athisized the Iraqi government and created ISIS."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • September 15, 2014
John McCain
John McCain
stated on September 10, 2014 an interview on CNN:
Says President Obama "has never made a statement ... that he wanted a residual force left (in Iraq)."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • September 12, 2014
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on September 4, 2014 an op-ed for Time magazine:
In Tripoli, "jihadists today swim in our embassy pool."
Half-True
By Steve Contorno • September 11, 2014
Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger
stated on September 6, 2014 an interview on NPR:
"There were fewer civilian casualties in Cambodia than there have been from American drone attacks."
False
By Jon Greenberg • September 11, 2014
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