Claims extracted
13
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
15%
2 of 13 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
withheld
no quote in the article backed the model's score
Publisher signals
70/100
ABC News (US)'s corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
27
Crime & Law
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
Ex-FBI agents fighting charges accusing them of lying about Hunter Biden probe
The DOJ says they lied to Congress about the probe into Hunter Biden's laptop.
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they → fight → laptop
Attorneys for two former FBI agents charged with lying to Congress about past probes of Hunter Biden are back in court Wednesday seeking to convince a magistrate judge to immediately dismiss their case, citing a lack of evidence and alleged prosecutorial misconduct.
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Attorneys → charge → evidence
In a marathon hearing Tuesday, magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui lambasted the conduct of federal prosecutors, striking from the record a superseding complaint they attempted to file in the case because it lacked proper signoff from a judge.
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it → lambast → judge
Faruqui said the growing record of "inappropriate" actions by the government was "throwing enormous amounts of gasoline onto this fire," which supported arguments from lawyers for former agents Nikki Floris and Brian Benavides that the charges against them were politically motivated.
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charges → say → them
"And so everything you're doing just is making me more and more concerned that there's something to that," Faruqui told DOJ prosecutors.
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Faruqui → do → that
The Justice Department on Friday charged Floris and Bradley with allegedly making false statements to Congress stemming from a probe into whether investigators in the lead-up to the 2020 election sought to suppress or discredit the veracity of material on the laptop of former President Joe Biden's son that included embarrassing photos and videos.
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that → charge → photos
Under cross-examination by attorneys for Floris and Benavides, FBI agent Bryan Witt, who was tasked with investigating their clients, disclosed that the genesis for the entire case was President Donald Trump's July speech that centered around unverified claims of fraud in past U.S. elections.
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that → task → elections
Witt said that following the speech, FBI Director Kash Patel personally assigned the investigation of a list of former agents, including Floris and Benavides, to the FBI's Kansas City field office.
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Patel → say → office
Witt, who conceded that the sequence of events was unusual, further testified that the office received regular check-ins from FBI leadership on the status of their probe.
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office → concede → probe
At the start of Wednesday's hearing, a DOJ attorney sought to object to a line of questioning related to Trump and Patel's personal involvement in initiating the investigation.
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attorney → seek → investigation
Judge Faruqui seemed skeptical of the objection, saying that the testimony appeared to be directly relevant to his eventual determination of whether there is sufficient probable cause for the charges.
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testimony → seem → charges
"It's not typical that the president of the United States says go investigate people," Faruqui said.
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Faruqui → say → people
"So that seems to squarely fit within an investigation to the reasonableness of the basis for the charge."
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that → seem → charge
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