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How could Donald Trump have kept that many classified "Presidential Records" after leaving office?
FBI agents seized 11 sets of classified documents from former President Trump’s residence earlier this week, including some so sensitive they could only be stored in special government facilities, ...
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Did female majority electorate result in higher government spending compared to WW2?
An inflammatory infographic frequently shared online claims that women voting is directly responsible for increase of government spending which it argues overshadows the effects of ww2. I would like ...
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Are the "DHSC Communications Team" using bots to flood social media with posts showing NHS workers supportive of government policy?
The image below seems to be circulating on Facebook along with a text
To give you an idea of the times we are living in, Twitter has been
flooded with hundreds of new accounts today.
All ...
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Is Gina Haspel wanted in Europe? [closed]
In a tweet from Randy Kennedy, then shared on Facebook by Girl du Jour (and then others) it is claimed that President Trump's pick to head the CIA - Gina Haspel - is wanted in Europe for "war crimes". ...
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Entire GOP voted against letting senators read the new tax bill?
Following the passing of Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in the U.S. Senate on December 2nd 2017, this photo has been making the rounds on social media (facebook in my case). The tweet by Jesse Lehrich claims
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Did Paul Combetta ask for advice on reddit on how to strip emails for Hillary Clinton?
A reddit user has several archived posts showing questions about stripping emails for a "VIP" customer.
Some people have attributed those posts to Paul Combetta, an employee in charge of Hillary ...
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Is the Stuxnet worm a government facade? [closed]
I just read about Stuxnet, which is allegedly a computer worm that silently infected thousands of computers and eventually sabotaged Iran’s nuclear program. I find it difficult to believe that so many ...
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Does the UK government have only 300 staff investigating tax evasion of £70bn+ vs 3250 staff investigating benefits (welfare) fraud of £1.2bn?
The following graphic is doing the rounds on Facebook:
Is it true?
Does the graphic give an accurate representation of the comparative headcount/effort/resources that the UK government (as a whole) ...
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Does the Australian government spend more on welfare than on defense?
Is it true that the Australian people spend more on welfare than they do on defense?
This was claimed by Joe Hockey:
Each year, the Government spends more on welfare than we spend on the education ...
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Does Texas have the right to secede from the United States?
There's a common folklore among Texans that Texas was the only state to specifically have it written that Texas may secede, although I've heard that other states have that right as well.
In 2009, Gov ...
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Is Paul Ryan's Congress record of two bills passed unusual?
According to this article, Paul Ryan has passed only two bills during ~13 years in Congress. (By passed, I assume the article means authored or co-authored bills passed in at least the House.) Is this ...
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Are voter ID laws effective tools at *suppressing* voter fraud?
Recent bickering over who should require what to vote where have suggested that requiring a person bring some form of ID to the poll might help alleviate fraud. This makes important assumptions:
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Does Wikileaks have direct ties with US governmental organizations?
According to this blog post post (I agree, this is not a very valid source of information), Julian Assange had ties with US government workers, especially in the CIA:
The sender is talking about ...
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Is Congress's pay protected even if the US defaults?
Today around the watercooler, us active duty military, and civil service employees were discussing the possible effects of the US defaulting. Since we are all paid by the government, this is a very ...
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Are media reports about squatters' rights accurate?
So a few months ago there was a spout of stories in the UK papers pertaining to squatters, and the fact that they have just been breaking into houses and changing the locks whilst the owners had been ...
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