The Washington Post

• A bushel of Pinocchios for IRS’s Lois Lerner May 20, 2013
  In the days since the Internal Revenue Service first disclosed that it had targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, new information has emerged from both the Treasury inspector general’s report and congressional testimony Friday that calls into question key statements made by Lois G. Lerner, the IRS’s director of the exempt organizations divis […]
  Glenn Kessler
• Holder’s incorrect claim on the ‘Fast and Furious’ criminal citation decision May 17, 2013
  Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.): “In the AP [Associated Press] case you have appointed Ronald Machen, and I’m sure he is a fine U.S. attorney, but can he be considered to be independent when in fact when this Congress held you in contempt he was the individual who refused, on your orders, to prosecute the case? If he will obey your orders in not living up to a […]
  Glenn Kessler
• Barbara Boxer’s claim that GOP budgets hampered Benghazi security May 16, 2013
  “I believe if we want to know what happened in Benghazi, it starts with the fact that there was not enough security. There was not enough security because the budget was cut.” — Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), speech on the Senate floor, May 14, 2013 Read full article >>     […]
  Glenn Kessler
• How many pages of regulations for ‘Obamacare’? May 15, 2013
  “Obamacare is fully implemented January 1st, even though the regulations haven’t been written yet. And Brian, we’ve got 33,000 pages of regulations that they’ve already written. If we stacked it up here, it would be seven feet tall.” Read full article >>     […]
  Glenn Kessler
• Obama’s claim he called Benghazi an ‘act of terrorism’ May 14, 2013
  “The day after it happened, I acknowledged that this was an act of terrorism.” — President Obama, remarks at a news conference, May 13, 2013 Read full article >>     […]
  Glenn Kessler
• The claim that Senate Democrats have produced a ‘balanced budget’ May 13, 2013
  “I first want to thank the chair of our committee, the budget committee, for doing such a terrific job in bringing us all together. My colleagues on the committee, as we all know, we worked very, very hard together in order to be able to put together a balanced budget that reflects the values of the American people, that’s fair, that’s balanced in values and […]
  Glenn Kessler
• An alternative explanation for the Benghazi talking points: Bureaucratic knife fight May 10, 2013
  From time to time, the Fact Checker writes an analytic look at news events, based on his three decades of experience covering diplomacy and politics, rather than a traditional fact check. This is one of those columns. Read full article >>     […]
  Glenn Kessler
• Coburn’s claim that violence in national parks has declined ‘85 percent’ because of guns May 10, 2013
  “Remember, in 2010, everybody said you can’t dare let guns go into the national parks. And of course the rapes, murders, robberies and assaults are down about 85 percent since we did that.” — Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), speaking on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” May 9, 2013 Read full article >>     […]
  Glenn Kessler
• The Benghazi hearings: what’s new and what’s not May 9, 2013
  “I was stunned. My jaw dropped. And I was embarrassed” — Gregory Hicks, former U.S. deputy chief of mission to Libya, testifying on his reaction to U.N. Ambassador Susan E. Rice’s remarks on the terror attack in Benghazi, May 8, 2013 Read full article >>     […]
  Glenn Kessler
• Cherry-picking one survey to discredit a survey of scientists on climate change May 8, 2013
  “There is also uncertainty regarding to what degree man is to blame for global warming. However, the claim that 98 percent of scientists agree that humans are the singular driver of climate change has been repeatedly discounted. This oft-cited statistic is based on an online survey with a sample size of only 77 people, and the survey didn’t even ask to what […]
  Glenn Kessler