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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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From: Brumar892/28/2013 2:42:00 PM
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Obama warns DOJ will have to "let criminals go" due to sequester:

... Perhaps the most alarming warning about tomorrow's cuts, known as "the sequester," has come from President Obama, who has said that "federal prosecutors will have to close cases and let criminals go." Adair says that while the Justice Department will indeed have to cut back on prosecutions, dangerous criminals are not going to be wandering the streets starting tomorrow.

"From what we could tell, [it was] a vast exaggeration to equate that with letting criminals go, wording that really implies opening the prison doors and letting people stream out, and so that one got a mostly false on the truth-o-meter," says Adair, editor of the fact-checking project PolitiFact.
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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/power-players-abc-news/spending-cuts-fact-fiction-half-truths-tomorrow-budget-122914909.html
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