Bachmann exaggerates directive in her criticism

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Source: AP

By THOMAS BEAUMONT, Associated Press; EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press

DAVENPORT, IOWA — Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said Friday the Obama administration is striking all references to Islam from Justice Department training manuals, exaggerating a directive from federal officials to evaluate procedures for religious and cultural sensitivity.

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A conservative popular with tea party activists and evangelical conservatives, she later linked President Barack Obama with "4,400 American lives" lost in Iraq. However, the death toll in the 8-year-old war that began under President George W. Bush had already reached 4,229 when Obama was inaugurated in 2009. It now stands at no fewer than 4,481.

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The FBI has not removed Islam from training material, said an FBI official who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter and requested anonymity.



Read more: http://www.wral.com/news/political/story/10312467/

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I am astounded and had to post this here. An AP report that actually calls out Michele Bachman for lying! At link you will see several paragraphs that correct the record. Actual investigative journalism.

I salute, applaud, and thank Thomas Beaumont and Eileen Sullivan of the AP.

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1. Like any good rethuglican, Michelle is quick attribute anything horrible about the previous

rethuglican administration to the new Democratic administration: raising practiced hypocrisy and disingenuousness to an art-form. :patriot: