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Michael McCaul
stated on May 10, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday"

More money is dedicated within the Department of Homeland Security to climate change than what's spent combating "Islamist terrorists radicalizing over the Internet in the United States of America."

By Jon Greenberg • May 14, 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.

By Nancy Badertscher • April 24, 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."

By Katie Sanders • April 9, 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."

By Louis Jacobson • March 16, 2015

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

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

By Jon Greenberg • February 19, 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."

By Lauren Carroll • February 8, 2015

Doonesbury
stated on January 11, 2015 the Sunday comics

The CIA paid two psychologists $81 million "to develop and run their torture program."

By Jon Greenberg • January 12, 2015

Kay Hagan
stated on October 3, 2014 a news release

Says Thom Tillis "refuses to say what we should do to combat ISIS."

By Bill Adair, Shaker Samman • October 7, 2014

LZ Granderson
stated on September 28, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union"

Says President Barack Obama has launched "twice as many strikes (on) countries that are predominantly Muslim" than President George W. Bush.

By Lauren Carroll • September 28, 2014

Julie Pace
stated on September 11, 2014 a question to White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest

The Obama administration is using as its "legal justification for these airstrikes (on the Islamic State), an authorization for military force that the president himself has called for repeal of."

By Derek Tsang • September 18, 2014

John McCain
stated on September 10, 2014 an interview on CNN

Says President Obama "has never made a statement ... that he wanted a residual force left (in Iraq)."

By Lauren Carroll • September 12, 2014

David Gregory
stated on August 10, 2014 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"

The Islamic State, or ISIS, was "cast off by al-Qaida because" it was "considered too extreme."

By Linda Qiu • August 13, 2014

Mike Rogers
stated on June 15, 2014 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"

"Thousands of Westerners and Americans" are fighting with extremists in eastern Syria and Iraq.

By Steve Contorno • June 18, 2014

John McCain
stated on June 1, 2014 an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation"

The five Taliban detainees being released from Guantanamo in exchange for captured Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl "are the hardest of the hard-core. These are the highest high-risk people."

By Louis Jacobson • June 2, 2014

John Garamendi
stated on May 5, 2014 an interview on MSNBC's "The Ed Show"

"During the George W. Bush period, there were 13 attacks on various embassies and consulates around the world. Sixty people died."

By Louis Jacobson • May 12, 2014

Bill Kristol
stated on December 22, 2013 comments on ABC's "This Week"

Says President Barack Obama "came into office very concerned about" wiretappings but "then he became president of the United States, he got all the briefings … (and) he decided … the balance is probably pretty appropriately struck."

By Katie Sanders • December 22, 2013

Tom Cole
stated on July 30, 2013 an MSNBC interview

Says about NSA data collection: "Every member in both parties who served on the Intelligence Committee voted in favor of this."

By Becky Bowers • August 2, 2013

Mike Rogers
stated on June 9, 2013 an interview on ABC’s "This Week"

"It's expressly prohibited by law that you can read and wholly surveil domestic email traffic in the United States."

By Becky Bowers • June 13, 2013

Peter King
stated on April 22, 2013 an interview with MSNBC

The Boston Marathon bombing "is the fifth case" in which U.S. government officials examined individuals potentially involved in terrorism "and felt they were no threat and they went on to carry out terrorist murders."

By Louis Jacobson • April 23, 2013

Ron Paul
stated on September 30, 2011 remarks at Politics & Eggs forum in Manchester, N.H.

Every month since 9/11, there have been as many suicide attacks against the United States and its allies as there were in all the years leading up to 9/11.

By Maryalice Gill • October 24, 2011

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