Latest Fact-Checks In Terrorism

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Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on March 23, 2016 a House Oversight Committee National Security Subcommittee hearing
"Recent reports state that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection has apprehended several members of known Islamist terrorist organizations crossing the southern border in recent years."
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By Joshua Gillin • April 4, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 23, 2016 remarks at Stanford University
"It’s actually easier for the United States to get flight manifests from E.U. nations than it is for E.U. nations to get them from their own neighbors, thanks to an agreement the U.S. negotiated when I was secretary of state."
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By Lauren Carroll • March 29, 2016
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on March 17, 2016 a news conference
"To this day, (the Cuban government) is a regime that provides safe harbor to terrorists and fugitives."
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By Lauren Carroll • March 24, 2016
Joe Pitts
Joe Pitts
stated on February 25, 2016 in a Medium post.
"More people were killed by terrorists in 2015 than in any other year ever, after an 80 percent increase from 2014."
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By Anna Orso • March 22, 2016
Bill Maher
Bill Maher
stated on February 10, 2016 an essay in The Hollywood Reporter
"Why are Muslim armies so useless against ISIS? ... There are 20,000 or 30,000 (ISIS fighters). The countries surrounding ISIS have armies totaling 5 million people."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 22, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on January 4, 2016 a posting on the Clinton website
"Marco Rubio voted against authorizing President Obama to strike Syria after Assad used chemical weapons on his own people."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 7, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on December 19, 2015 a Democratic debate in New Hampshire
Says Bernie Sanders "voted for regime change with respect to Libya." 
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By Lauren Carroll • December 22, 2015
Rob Wittman
Rob Wittman
stated on December 9, 2015 an interview.
"Only nine" coalition nations with the U.S. "are truly actively involved" in fighting the Islamic State.
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By Sean Gorman • December 22, 2015
Mike Thompson
Mike Thompson
stated on December 7, 2015 a speech
"Since 2004, more than 2,000 suspected terrorists have legally purchased weapons in the United States."
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By Chris Nichols • December 17, 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."
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By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 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."
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By Louis Jacobson • December 13, 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."
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By Joshua Gillin • December 10, 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.
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By Louis Jacobson • 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."
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By Jon Greenberg • December 1, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 15, 2015 a joint statement with the president of Turkey.
"The United States (is) the largest provider of humanitarian assistance to displaced persons and refugees."
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By Jon Greenberg • November 17, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on November 15, 2015 comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
"It takes almost a year for a refugee to be processed in the United States."
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By Linda Qiu • November 15, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 5, 2015 on NBC's Today Show
"There have been seven investigations (of Benghazi) led mostly by Republicans in the Congress" that concluded "nobody did anything wrong, but there were changes we could make."
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By Clayton Youngman • October 12, 2015
Viral image
Viral image
stated on October 1, 2015 a Facebook post
Number of Americans killed by terrorism in the last decade: 24. Number of Americans killed by guns in the last decade: 280,024.
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By Linda Qiu • October 5, 2015
Michael McCaul
Michael McCaul
stated on September 12, 2015 the Republican weekly radio/TV address
Iran’s "regime is responsible for more than 1,000 American casualties during the Iraq war" and "has plotted a terrorist attack here in our nation's capital."
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By W. Gardner Selby • October 5, 2015
Martin O'Malley
Martin O'Malley
stated on September 10, 2015 interview with Democracy Now!
Says "the cascading effects" of climate change contributed to the rise of ISIS.
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By Linda Qiu • September 23, 2015
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