"Assertions in the press that our compliance with these requests gives the U.S. government unfettered access to our users' data are simply untrue," David Drummond, the search giant's top lawyer, wrote, echoing not one but two flat-out denials that the government has "direct access" to company servers.
Or, to put it more briefly, out of four factual assertions in the UKIP press release, four are incorrect.
The president slightly backtracked on his assertion later in the same press conference.
The senator from Vermont made the same assertion in the first debate, and he was pressed by CBS News's John Dickerson, the debate moderator on Saturday, on whether his view had changed in light of the terrorist attacks in Paris a day earlier.
And yet when I and other members of the campaign repeated that Russia was responsible for the hack and was doing this to help Donald Trump, many in the press seemed skeptical, treating the assertion as mere spin.
"No-o-o!" the crowd roared, apparently accepting Trump's assertion, in his Tuesday press conference, that this would somehow be the consequence of taking down a statue of Lee.
Palin also devoted significant attention to the portrayal of her and her administration in the press, regularly decrying "untruths" in media reports and working feverishly to push back on negative assertions.
José Mourinho's "special one" assertion in his first press conference as a Premier League manager became his default nickname, and his subsequent defensive approach with Chelsea is considered his default footballing philosophy.
Guffaws in the press box.
Financial Mathematics in the Press.
