11.   Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said he could not verify the claims.

12.   Government experts said on Wednesday that he had also been interviewed twice by U.S. intelligence officials, who were attempting to verify his claims.

13.   However, neither the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission nor the Los Angeles Police Department could verify those claims.

14.   Miller said the agency verified the claim about borrowing money.

15.   Most companies with human resource departments try to verify resume claims, but assessing the accreditation of foreign universities is difficult.

16.   Neither claim could be verified independently.

17.   Phony hunters say they can verify the claims of highest military honors or elite service quickly because those groups are relatively small.

18.   State government sources said that procedures to verify claims on unclaimed monies had been relaxed in July, when Malone still controlled the office.

19.   Still, Payne for months refused to allow the media access to the bid team records that could verify his claims.

20.   That claim was verified by the international panel appointed to monitor paramilitary weapons disposal.