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"It actually (found itself – ed.) in the epicenter of repelling a massive attack by enemy drones. We simultaneously conducted an anti-aircraft battle and ensured the safety of the president's helicopter in the air," said the commander of the air defense division, Yuri Dashkin. The events took place during Vladimir Putin's trip to the Kursk region earlier this week. According to Dashkin, the president was on board the helicopter during the drone attack.

The obvious answer to the above thread title is NO. The veracity of something does not change over time. If something is a lie, a mislead, or whatever, then whether or not it is old does not mean that what was reported then wasn't true. Some may counter by saying that if what was reported then in the past were true, then it would have brought down that person - i.e., they would have had to resign their position or their campaign would have been scuttled - but that assumption would also be false. Not all truth ends in the...

March 26, 2008 -- WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton's lies about risking her life under sniper fire during a visit to Bosnia as first lady have infuriated the US military brass and troops. "She has no sense of what a statement like that does to soldiers," fumed retired Maj. Gen. Walter Stewart, the former head of the Pennsylvania National Guard. "She is insulting the command in its entirety," he said yesterday. VOTE: Has Hillary's credibility been "shot to pieces?" Clinton came under fire after saying she "misspoke" about what happened during the trip and claimed it was the first time...

Sen. Hillary Clinton has used a story of arriving in Bosnia under sniper fire to bolster her foreign policy bona fides, but the Washington Post retrieved a photo showing that upon landing, she actually was greeted in a customary tarmac ceremony, complete with a kiss for a native child. Hillary Clinton arriving in Bosnia in 1996 Clinton has declared on the campaign trail that a welcoming ceremony for the March 25, 1996, arrival in Tuzla was canceled, and she had to run from the airplane into an airport building for safety. The then-first lady's traveling party included 15-year-old daughter Chelsea,...