claim: says barack obama broke a decades-old policy of "not negotiating with terrorists."
author: ted cruz
evidence_1: jun 6, 2014 ... and did president obama violate the law by failing to notify appropriate  congressional leaders of the deal 30 days in advance? we set out to fact-check ...  ted cruz said the obama administration violated a decades-old policy of “not  negotiating with terrorists” in the swap for bergdahl. secretary of defense ...
evidence_2: jun 6, 2014 ... we fact-checked texas sen. ted cruz, who said president barack obama broke  a decades-old policy of not negotiating with terrorists. we actually found a  number of instances where the united states did negotiate with terrorists. we  rated his statement mostly false. • we fact-checked sen. john mccain of ...
evidence_3: oct 4, 2016 ... what pence is referring to is a payment that president obama announced back in  january that was the result of an agreed settlement to a 35-year case ... the  timing of the decades-old weapons payment settlement and the hostage release  suggested that it wasn't just a settlement on a legal issue — it was ...
evidence_4: aug 3, 2016 ... the money represented the first installment of a $1.7 billion settlement the  obama administration reached with iran to resolve a decades-old dispute over ...  “this break with longstanding u.s. policy put a price on the head of americans,  and has led iran to continue its illegal seizures” of americans, he said.
evidence_5: jun 1, 2014 ... this weekend something very big happened in american foreign policy, the  decades old doctrine of not negotiating with terrorist is dead and with that we ... in  exchanging sgt. bergdahl for five taliban terrorist president obama and his  administration broke with decades of tradition in not negotiating with ...