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Did Ron DeSantis torture people at Guantanamo Bay?
The plain faced reading of "[Ron DesSantis] tortured innocent prisoners at Guantanamo Bay" is that Mr. DeSantis took a hands-on role in torture. There is no evidence that this is true.
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Does California allow (or plan to allow) post-birth abortion?
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Gov. DeSantis is likely referring to articles going around conservative media about an ambiguity in the original version of AB-2223 Reproductive Health Bill introduced by Assembly Member ...
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Did Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird ignore direct orders from Nixon during the EC-121 crisis, as Henry Kissinger alleged?
According to R.A. Hunt's [somewhat gigantic] biography of Laird (published by the Government Printing Office in 2015), it is essentially true that Laird delayed resuming the reconnaissance flights (...
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Did Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird ignore direct orders from Nixon during the EC-121 crisis, as Henry Kissinger alleged?
From a quick search, this actually sounds like a confabulation of several reported events. Snopes addresses (or fails to address) one:
Claim: In 1969, then-President Richard Nixon ordered a nuclear ...
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