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Latest Fact-Checks In Terrorism

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Richard Clarke
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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