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Latest Fact-Checks In Military

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Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on January 29, 2010 his Fox News program
"Thomas Jefferson created the Marines for the Islamic pirates that were happening."
Half-True
February 3, 2010
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."
Mostly True
November 30, 2009
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 9, 2009 his Fox News program
"Barack Obama won't even use the term 'war on terrorism.'"
True
November 12, 2009
Robert Gibbs
Robert Gibbs
stated on October 22, 2009 the daily White House press conference
A request for "an increase in troops sat on desks in this White House (during the presidency of George W. Bush), including the vice president's, for more than eight months, a resource request filled by President Obama in March."
True
October 23, 2009
Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
stated on October 21, 2009 a speech to the Center for Security Policy
The Obama administration notified Poland and the Czech Republic about cancellation of major missile-defense facilities "at the last minute in midnight phone calls."
True
By Louis Jacobson • October 23, 2009
Carl Levin
Carl Levin
stated on October 11, 2009 an appearance on 'Meet the Press'
Other Western countries have ended their "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policies.
True
By Catharine Richert • October 12, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on September 23, 2009 a speech to investors in Hong Kong
"The Defense Department received only one-half of 1 percent of the nearly trillion-dollar stimulus package funding."
Mostly True
By Ian Jannetta • September 29, 2009
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on September 22, 2009 an interview with Sen. John McCain on Fox News Channel
The Obama administration is "cutting back on defense"
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 25, 2009
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on September 22, 2009 his Fox News program
"Our own National Security Agency says that (Iran's) nuclear ambitions are advancing, and at the same time ... we are slashing our own nuclear arsenal."
Mostly True
September 23, 2009
Duncan Hunter
Duncan Hunter
stated on August 31, 2009 an interview on MSNBC
"We waterboard, incidentally, hundreds of our own military personnel. They waterboard themselves in training to toughen themselves up."
Mostly True
September 4, 2009
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on August 2, 2009 CNN's State of the Union with John King
Under President George W. Bush, the U.S. "spent $1.3 trillion on tax cuts for the wealthy" and "trillions" each on a war and on Medicare drug benefits.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 5, 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
Chain email
Chain email
stated on June 25, 2009 an e-mail received by many people.
"The ACLU has filed a suit to have all military cross-shaped headstones removed."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 2, 2009
Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann
stated on June 18, 2009 his MSNBC "Countdown" program
"Yes, this would be the same congressman (Rep. Pete Hoekstra) who last year Tweeted the whereabouts of a top-secret mission to Iraq."
False
June 24, 2009
Lynn Westmoreland
Lynn Westmoreland
stated on June 17, 2009 a press release on the House GOP's blog.
The war spending bill "actually spends more money on the International Monetary Fund than on the war."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • June 23, 2009
North Korean foreign ministry
North Korean foreign ministry
stated on May 29, 2009 a released statement
"The nuclear test conducted in our nation this time is the Earth's 2,054th nuclear test. The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council have conducted 99.99 percent of the total nuclear tests."
True
May 29, 2009
Colin Powell
Colin Powell
stated on May 24, 2009 an interview on CBS's Face the Nation
Cheney is "disagreeing with President Bush's policy. President Bush stated repeatedly to international audiences and to the country that he wanted to close Guantanamo."
Half-True
May 26, 2009
Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
stated on May 21, 2009 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
May 22, 2009
Pray in Jesus Name Project
Pray in Jesus Name Project
stated on May 17, 2009 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
May 18, 2009
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