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Rick Perry
stated on August 3, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union":

The United States is at "historic record highs" of individuals being apprehended on the border from countries with terrorist ties such as "Pakistan or Afghanistan or Syria."

By Lauren Carroll • August 3, 2014

Rick Perry
stated on June 17, 2014 an interview on Fox & Friends:

Says of flood of non-Mexicans being apprehended at the border: "These are people that are coming from states like Syria that have substantial connections back to terrorist regimes and terrorist operations."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 22, 2014

Ted Nugent
stated on June 12, 2014 a Facebook post:

Says a picture he posted on Facebook of a man posing in front of five decapitated human heads is "one of the subhuman mongrels our president set free."

By Jon Greenberg • June 16, 2014

David Dewhurst
stated on October 14, 2013 an interview with the Texas Observer:

The White House had a live video feed of the Benghazi attacks as they occurred.

By W. Gardner Selby • October 15, 2013

Chain email
stated on September 4, 2013 a chain email:

An account of attacks in Benghazi written by former White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers shows that the body of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens was "dragged through the streets" and abused.

By Louis Jacobson • September 6, 2013

Sarah Palin
stated on July 26, 2013 an interview with Fox News:

"I was banned from talking about" Bill Ayers during the 2008 presidential campaign.

By Jon Greenberg • July 30, 2013

Barack Obama
stated on June 17, 2013 an interview with Charlie Rose:

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court "is transparent."

By Louis Jacobson • June 21, 2013

John DePetro
stated on May 10, 2013 a comment on WPRO radio.:

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is buried "not far" from President Kennedy’s grave.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 17, 2013

BillHislam.com
stated on August 27, 2012 a Web posting:

Says that Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam "has made it clear by his repeated actions that he will pursue a policy that promotes the interest of Islamist (sic) and their radical ideology as long as he is governor."

By Richard Locker • August 27, 2012

Chain email
stated on June 7, 2011 a chain e-mail:

Accuses President Barack Obama of making contradictory claims about efforts to kill Osama bin Laden in 2008 and 2011.

By Louis Jacobson • June 7, 2011

John Thrasher
stated on May 3, 2011 comments on the Senate floor:

Says that had E-Verify been in place in Florida when 9/11 terrorists lived here, "we might have saved the lives of 3,000 Americans."

By Aaron Sharockman • May 3, 2011

Kendrick Meek
stated on October 24, 2010 a debate:

"The Taliban has been there for years and years, I mean, hundreds of thousands of years."

By Amy Sherman • October 25, 2010

Carly Fiorina
stated on June 2, 2010 a campaign commercial:

"Barbara Boxer's worried about the weather" instead of terrorism as the biggest threat to national security.

By Louis Jacobson, Robert Farley • June 4, 2010

Rudy Giuliani
stated on January 8, 2010 an interview on 'Good Morning America':

"We had no domestic attacks under Bush."

By Aaron Sharockman • January 8, 2010

Dick Cheney
stated on December 30, 2009 a statement to Politico.:

President Obama "doesn't ... want to admit we're at war."

By Bill Adair • January 3, 2010

Chain email
stated on November 13, 2009 an e-mail circulated to many people.:

Maj. Nidal Hasan, the man accused of the Fort Hood shootings, "was an ADVISOR to the Obama Administration."

By Catharine Richert • November 13, 2009

Republican National Committee
stated on October 21, 2008 a direct mail piece:

"Barack Obama thinks terrorists just need a good talking to."

By Alexander Lane • October 22, 2008

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