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Dick Cheney
stated on October 21, 2009 in 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
stated on October 11, 2009 in 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
stated on September 23, 2009 in 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
stated on September 22, 2009 in 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
stated on September 22, 2009 in 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

By Robert Farley • September 23, 2009

Duncan Hunter
stated on August 31, 2009 in an interview on MSNBC:

"We waterboard, incidentally, hundreds of our own military personnel. They waterboard themselves in training to toughen themselves up."

Mostly True

By Robert Farley • September 4, 2009

Donna Brazile
stated on August 2, 2009 in 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
stated on July 7, 2009 in 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

By Robert Farley • July 14, 2009

Chain email
stated on June 25, 2009 in 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
stated on June 18, 2009 in 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

By Robert Farley • June 24, 2009

Lynn Westmoreland
stated on June 17, 2009 in 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
stated on May 29, 2009 in 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

By Robert Farley • May 29, 2009

Colin Powell
stated on May 24, 2009 in 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

By Robert Farley • May 26, 2009

Dick Cheney
stated on May 21, 2009 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

Pray in Jesus Name Project
stated on May 17, 2009 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

Lindsey Graham
stated on April 26, 2009 in a TV interview:

"The Geneva Convention did not apply, until 2005, to the war on terror."

Half-True

By Robert Farley • April 28, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on April 19, 2009 in a news conference.:

"Venezuela is a country whose defense budget is probably 1/600th of the United States."

Mostly True

By Robert Farley • April 21, 2009

Gus Bilirakis
stated on April 15, 2009 in a news release:

It is "the Department of Homeland Security's view that returning military veterans and gun owners are likely to commit terrorist acts."

Mostly False

By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 16, 2009

Keith Olbermann
stated on April 8, 2009 in an episode of his TV program.:

"President Obama is actually increasing Bush-era defense spending by $21 billion in the new fiscal year."

Mostly True

By Robert Farley • April 13, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on March 27, 2009 in a speech at the White House. :

"2008 was the deadliest year of the war (in Afghanistan) for American forces."

True

By Alexander Lane • March 31, 2009

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