“There were documents released this week that the CIA actually made a referral to the FBI documenting that those allegations were coming from the Hillary Clinton campaign.”
What Washington Post found
Pence left off that caveat that this is raw intelligence and could be gossip. He treated it as an established fact — that the CIA “documented” the allegations to the FBI.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Mike Pence (Vice President) made this claim around 7 October 2020. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 9 October 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “Misleading”.
Mike Pence has 46 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 17 of them false or fake, 25 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- usatoday.comhttps://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/10/08/vice-presidential-debat…
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