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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Fact Checking Obama

Fact Checking Obama

http://the-diplomat.com/the-editor/2012/01/25/fact-checking-obama/

This is very cool: The New York Times has video of Barack Obama’s State of the Union address from last night paired with a real-time transcript down the side and a fact check on some key points. On the issues I mentioned in my blog post, the fact check says of a couple of them: Claim: Bin Laden Not a Threat to the U.S. President Obama can claim a record of aggressive pursuit of al-Qaeda and its affiliates abroad over the past year, including the killing of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda's founder, in May; Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born propagandist and plotter for the terrorist network's branch in Yemen, in September; and scores of suspected militants in Pakistan. Before the mission to kill Bin Laden, Mr. Obama made a high-risk decision to send a Navy Seal team deep into Pakistani territory without alerting Pakistani officials, a bold move that later drew praise even from some ... Read More...

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