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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 22, 2010 in remarks at a bill signing:
The president's budget "would take ... non-defense spending to its lowest level ... as a percentage of the economy since JFK."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2010
Joe Lieberman
Joe Lieberman
stated on May 6, 2010 in a press conference:
The president can "authorize the killing of a U.S. citizen who fights for a foreign terrorist organization."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 11, 2010
Robert Gates
Robert Gates
stated on April 11, 2010 in ABC's "This Week":
"The video doesn't show the broader picture of the firing that was going on at American troops."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • April 12, 2010
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on November 29, 2009 in 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
By Robert Farley • November 30, 2009
Sarah Palin
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
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
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
Dick Cheney
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
Barack Obama
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
Keith Olbermann
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
John McCain
John McCain
stated on May 12, 2008 in a statement by a spokesman:
"Obama himself voted against funding our nation's veterans and troops in the field during a time of war."
Mostly True
By Adriel Bettelheim • May 19, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 4, 2007 in a TV ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire.:
"She stood by our National Guard and Reserve and kept standing till they received health care they deserved."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 11, 2007
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on August 30, 2007 in a television interview.:
"Sixty-one percent of our active military are currently listed as overweight."
Mostly True
By Josh Korr • September 19, 2007
Bill Richardson
Bill Richardson
stated on September 5, 2007 in a TV ad.:
"Bill Richardson passed the first law in the nation giving National Guard soldiers $400,000 in life insurance."
Mostly True
By Tom Tobin • August 30, 2007
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