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Person: Dick Cheney
The Facts on Fracking Chemical Disclosure
Q: Are the chemicals in fracking solution protected from being made public by a law passed while Dick Cheney was vice president?
A: Yes. A 2005 law bans the federal government from requiring companies to disclose fracking chemicals. But 28 states do require disclosure of some fracking fluids.
Cheney’s Tortured Facts
The former vice president offers misleading spin in defending CIA interrogation tactics.
Did Obama Declare Terrorist Threat ‘Gone’?
In an interview on Fox News, former Vice President Dick Cheney went too far with his claim that President Obama “has stated repeatedly the terrorist threat is gone.”
Dick Cheney vs. Joe Biden
Vice President Biden and former V.P. Cheney have been slugging it out publicly over the proper way to prosecute suspected terrorists. Biden went so far as to accuse Cheney of being “factually, substantively wrong.” So we took a look, and found both men have been straining the facts …
Drilling Off the Coast of Cuba
Q: Are the Chinese drilling off the coast of Cuba?
A: No. George Will and Vice President Cheney got that wrong. But Cuba has allowed for exploration by at least six other non-Chinese firms in the region and onshore testing and exploration by China’s Sinopec.
Are Obama and Cheney Related?
Q: Are Barack Obama and Dick Cheney cousins?
A: Yep. But they are quite distant relatives.
A Tortured History
President Bush has declared repeatedly, “we do not torture.” But claims of prisoner abuse continue to surface, Amnesty International has declared the US detention center in Cuba to be “a gulag,” and the administration has yet to deny a news report that it holds scores of suspects in secret CIA prisons overseas.
Iraq: What Did Congress Know, And When?
Bush says Congress had the same (faulty) intelligence he did. Howard Dean says intelligence was “corrupted.” We give facts.
Anti-war Ad Says Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld & Rice “Lied” About Iraq
We find some subtle word-twisting, and place the claims in context.