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Richard Clarke
stated on April 26, 2015 a panel on ABC "This Week":

Said President Barack Obama "said he was going to stop (signature strikes)."

Mostly False

By Lauren Carroll • April 28, 2015

David Perdue
stated on April 15, 2015 press release:

The Castro regime ‘violated international norms’ by secretly shipping weapons to North Korea in violation of a U.N. embargo.

Mostly True

By Nancy Badertscher • April 24, 2015

Judicial Watch
stated on April 14, 2015 a web item:

"ISIS camp a few miles from Texas, Mexican authorities confirm."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • April 17, 2015

Rand Paul
stated on April 12, 2015 comments on CNN's "State of the Union":

Says Hillary Clinton "completely ignored" "dozens and dozens of requests for more security" for the Benghazi consulate.

Half-True

By Katie Sanders • April 12, 2015

Edward Snowden
stated on April 5, 2015 an interview on "Last Week Tonight":

"Wholly domestic communication between you and your wife can go to New York to London and back and get caught up in the (NSA) database."

Mostly True

By Katie Sanders • April 9, 2015

Glenn Beck
stated on March 19, 2015 a Facebook post:

"A few weeks ago Obama took Hamas and Iran OFF the terror list."

False

By Louis Jacobson • March 20, 2015

Sean Hannity
stated on March 10, 2015 remarks on Fox's Hannity:

In 2007, when Nancy Pelosi met with President Assad of Syria, "nobody got upset."

False

By Lauren Carroll • March 18, 2015

Mitch McConnell
stated on March 15, 2015 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":

Says Secretary of State John Kerry, "when he was a senator, flew to Managua and met with a communist dictator there, Daniel Ortega, and accused the Reagan administration of engaging in terrorism."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • March 16, 2015

Rand Paul
stated on February 27, 2015 a speech at CPAC:

U.S. military involvement in Libya "allowed thousands of surface-to-air missiles to fall into the hands of radical Islamists."

Mostly False

By Lauren Carroll • March 9, 2015

CNN
stated on February 18, 2015 a graphic on CNN Newsroom:

"ISIS lures women with kittens, nutella."

Mostly False

By Katie Sanders • February 19, 2015

Joe Biden
stated on February 17, 2015 remarks at a White House summit:

"There is a very identifiable Somali community" back home in Delaware.

Pants on Fire!

By Lauren Carroll • February 19, 2015

Hillary Mann Leverett
stated on February 17, 2015 an interview on CNN:

ISIS sends out "90,000 social (media) messages a day."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • February 19, 2015

Adam Kinzinger
stated on February 15, 2015 an appearance on ABC's 'This Week':

The current debate over authorizing military action against the Islamic State "would be the first time Congress would place limits on the commander-in-chief's ability to be commander-in-chief."

False

By Steve Contorno • February 19, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on February 13, 2015 a radio interview:

ISIS is "now the predominant Islamist group in Benghazi."

Mostly False

By Joshua Gillin • February 19, 2015

Lloyd Doggett
stated on January 26, 2015 oped commentary:

The Department of Homeland Security is "the only federal department not funded for this entire fiscal year" by Congress.

True

By W. Gardner Selby • February 18, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on February 11, 2015 a statement:

"Obama has chosen to deny the vicious anti-Semitic motivation of the attack on a kosher Jewish grocery in Paris."

False

By Lauren Carroll • February 12, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on February 8, 2015 comments on CNN's "State of the Union":

"The Obama administration is refusing to directly arm the Kurds."

Mostly True

By Lauren Carroll • February 8, 2015

Molly White
stated on February 3, 2015 an online statement:

The group that organized Texas Muslim Capitol Day in Austin "was recently listed as one of 82 organizations designated as a terrorist group by the United Arab Emirates."

Half-True

By W. Gardner Selby • February 6, 2015

Jack Keane
stated on February 1, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday":

"Al-Qaida has grown fourfold in five years."

Half-True

By Lauren Carroll • February 1, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on January 20, 2015 the State of the Union address:

"In Iraq and Syria, American leadership, including our military power, is stopping (the Islamic State’s) advance."

Half-True

By Steve Contorno • January 27, 2015

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