Obama Camp Challenges FactCheck.org

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The Obama campaign is challenging the assessment of an independent fact-checking group which called a series of ads attacking Mitt Romney’s record on outsourcing “untrue” and “thinly supported,” reports ABC News.

In a six-page letter to FactCheck.org, deputy Obama campaign manager Stephanie Cutter argued that Romney is on the hook for outsourcing at Bain-owned companieseven after he stepped down as CEO in February 2009. Cutter uses statements from the Romneys, his lawyer and SEC filings to that Romney continued to have a managerial and financial role in the company after that date.

From ABC:

“The statement that Gov. Romney ‘left’ Bain in February 1999 — a statement central to your fact-check — is not accurate,” Cutter writes. “Romney took an informal leave of absence but remained in full legal control of Bain and continued to be paid by Bain as such. Governor Romney would have the period of Bain service understood differently, for the obvious reason that there is much in this l999-2002 period that he would prefer to avoid accountability for.”

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