FACT CHECK: Hyperbole on terror interrogations and misfire on defense spending in GOP debate

CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press WASHINGTON Michele Bachmann did not intend to be taken literally when she told the Republican presidential debate Tuesday that civil-liberties activists have taken over the interrogation of terrorists from the CIA. But even as a rhetorical point, it didn't hold water. Her hyperbole on the American Civil Liberties Union was one of the more notable stretches in the