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Latest Fact-Checks In Terrorism

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Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 15, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas
Regarding the USA Freedom Act, "There is nothing we are allowed to do under this bill that we could not do before."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • December 16, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on December 15, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas
Says carpet bombing means bombing "not a city, but the location of the troops," with "embedded special forces to direct the air power."
False
By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on December 15, 2015 a GOP debate on CNN
"Two months ago, Donald Trump said that ISIS was not our fight."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on December 8, 2015 an interview with NPR
"Mike Morell testified and told Congress that the reason Obama has not bombed ISIS' oil fields is they're concerned about global warming."
False
By Linda Qiu • December 14, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 13, 2015 an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press"
"Three or four countries" out of roughly 60 in the anti-ISIS coalition "are providing military force."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 13, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on December 2, 2015 a speech.
 In 2000, "I wrote about Osama bin Laden, ‘We’ve got to take him out.’"
Mostly False
By Warren Fiske • December 11, 2015
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on December 9, 2015 an interview on CNN
Says Marco Rubio said "we should be considering internment" of Muslims, and "maybe we should close down cafes and diners where Muslims gather and in fact compared them to the Nazi party."  
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • December 10, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on December 6, 2015 an interview on 'This Week'
"Up until recently, 75 percent of all the sorties that left the base came back without dropping their ordnances, because there was such a concern about making sure that there were no civilian casualties."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • December 10, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on December 7, 2015 a campaign statement
Says 25 percent of U.S. Muslims "agreed that violence against Americans here in the United States is justified as a part of the global jihad."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll, Louis Jacobson • December 9, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on December 6, 2015 an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press'
"In France, they have a (surveillance) program a thousandfold more invasive" than the United States.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2015
Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough
stated on December 4, 2015 on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
In the weekend after the terrorist attacks in Paris, the White House said "this couldn't happen in the United States. ISIS couldn't reach us here."
False
By Lauren Carroll • December 8, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on November 29, 2015 an interview on "Face the Nation"
"It is already in the law that there is a requirement to screen (refugees) for religion."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • December 1, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 14, 2015 a rally in Beaumont, Texas
President Barack Obama "wants to take in 250,000 (people) from Syria."
Pants on Fire!
By Fauzeya Rahman • December 1, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on November 29, 2015 an interview on CNN
"The Family Research Council, according to some government agencies, is a terrorist group."
False
By Louis Jacobson • December 1, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on November 14, 2015 a news conference.
Says President Barack Obama "will not utter the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism’ and as matter of policy, nobody in the administration will say the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’"
True
By Sean Gorman • November 30, 2015
Martha McSally
Martha McSally
stated on November 17, 2015 a news conference
The United States has "10,000 IRS agents making sure that you don't take an improper charity deduction," but to fight terrorism, it has "less than two dozen people focusing on countering violent extremism at home."    
Mostly False
November 25, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 19, 2015 a speech at Georgetown University
"Instead of fighting ISIS, (the Saudis) have focused more on a campaign to oust Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen."
True
By Linda Qiu • November 24, 2015
Michael Needham
Michael Needham
stated on November 22, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
In 2013, the United States "accepted 67 percent of the world’s refugees."
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • November 22, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 21, 2015 comments during a speech
"I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering" as the World Trade Center collapsed.    
Pants on Fire!
By Lauren Carroll • November 22, 2015
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on November 17, 2015 an interview on Fox
The federal government is "making the decision, whether we like it or not, to send 425 refugees to our state" from Syria.
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • November 20, 2015
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