Fact-checking Lindsey Graham

Sen. Lindsey Graham has assimilated a margin of possibilities against for a Republican presidential nomination. Graham, who has served in Congress for some-more than 20 years, made a announcement

Here’s a demeanour behind during FactCheck.org’s past fact-checking of Graham’s statements.

In March, Graham was wrong

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In January, Graham claimed that a Obama administration has a process of “not interrogating or detaining militant suspects anymore.” That’s not accurate.

Graham opposes that change in process during Guantanamo Bay. His bureau sent us dual articles about suspected terrorists who would face rapist charges in U.S. court, an movement that didn’t obviate interrogation. Graham against a preference to not send a dual suspects to Guantanamo for unfixed interrogation. Instead of transferring detainees to Guantanamo, a Obama administration’s High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group

Graham made another farfetched matter about suspects during Guantanamoa May 2, 2011, Defense Department briefing

Then-CIA Director Leon Panetta has given identical accounts. He wrote in a May 2011 minute to Sens. John McCain and Dianne Feinstein that “no detainee in CIA control suggested a facilitator/courier’s full loyal name or specific whereabouts. This information was detected by other comprehension means.”

We’ll continue to follow Graham’s speeches and appearances on a debate trail, as we will for a flourishing list of presidential candidates

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