Image: prisoners being held my masked gunmen
Text: "ISIS executes more Christians in Libya"
Voiceover: "How did Libya get so bad?"
Image: Hillary Clinton speaking
Text: "The main architect of US Libya policy"
Voiceover: "Responsible for a disaster; more threats; more war"
Hillary in testimony: "I was responsible."
Text: "Hillary Clinton: At least her RECORD doesn't lie"
Source: OnTheIssues FactCheck on 2015 ABC/WMUR Dem. debate in N.H.
Dec 19, 2015
On Gun Control:
FactCheck: 33,000 gun deaths includes suicides & accidents
Hillary Clinton asserted, "90 people a day die from gun violence in our country. That's 33,000 people a year." Is that true? We checked and found that her statement was technically true but misleading.The federal CDC publishes statistics on causes
of death for all Americans. Here are the figures from their 2013 update:
- 21,175 suicide by gun
- 11,208 homicide by gun
- 505 accidental discharge of firearms
- 32,888 total deaths by firearm
So Secretary Clinton is technically
correct about her figures. The misleading aspect is that voters interpret "death from gun violence" as "murder". Self-inflicted and accidentally-inflicted deaths should not count in a political discussion about restricting firearms (or at least,
should be counted differently). Clinton chose to use the misleading statistic because it is more persuasive than saying "11,000 deaths from intentional gun violence against others". We rate Clinton's statement as "true but misleading."
Source: OnTheIssues FactCheck on 2016 NBC Democratic debate
Jan 17, 2016
On Homeland Security:
FactCheck: No, ISIL doesn't cite Trump in recruitment videos
Hillary Clinton said, "We need to make sure that the really discriminatory messages that Trump is sending around the world don't fall on receptive ears. He is becoming ISIS's best recruiter. They are going to people showing videos of Donald Trump
insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists." Is that true?We checked, and it is not. ABC News reports that neither the White House nor National Security Council would back up Clinton's assertion.
According to Business Insider, "The Clinton campaign has since backpedaled slightly on its candidate's comments. A campaign spokesman pointed to a comment from an expert on ISIS propaganda that ISIS follows 'everything Donald Trump says' and points to
Trump's proposed Muslim ban as proof that America hates Muslims. Clinton 'didn't have a particular video in mind' when she made the comment, said another campaign spokesman; Trump is being used by ISIS in social-media propaganda.
Source: OnTheIssues FactCheck on 2015 ABC/WMUR Dem. debate in N.H.
Dec 19, 2015
On Homeland Security:
FactCheck: 7 official reports on Benghazi over 3-year period
Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said about Benghazi, "Many questions remain unanswered and I applaud the Select Committee's continued diligent efforts to find the truth." Have there been sufficient investigations to answer questions, or, as
Democrats contend, is this issue being politicized? We found seven published reports: - State Department Accountability Review Board report on Dec. 20, 2012
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs report on Dec. 31, 2012
- Five House Committees joint interim report on April 23, 2013 (interim report by Republicans only)
- FBI report on May 2, 2013 (investigation still ongoing)
- Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report on Jan. 15, 2014
- House Select Committee
on Benghazi: three hearings & 29 witnesses since its creation on May 8, 2014 (interim progress report released on May 8, 2015)
Whether questions "remain unanswered" is opinion; but the fact is, there has been plenty of OPPORTUNITY to "find the truth.
Source: OnTheIssues FactCheck on Benghazi
Jul 2, 2015
On Homeland Security:
FactCheck: Dozens of U.S. diplomats killed during Bush terms
Jeb Bush said that Benghazi was "the first deadly assault on a U.S. diplomat since 1979." Is that true? We checked and found that assertion to be entirely false. Following is the list of fatalities from such attacks just during the George W. Bush
presidency, excluding many attacks on the US Embassy in Baghdad:- 1/22/2002. US Consulate in Calcutta, India: 5 killed.
- 6/14/2002. US Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan: 12 killed.
- 2/28/2003. US Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan: 2 killed.
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5/12/2003. US Compound in Riyadh, Arabia: 36 killed (9 Americans).
- 7/30/2004. US Embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan: 2 killed.
- 12/6/2004. US Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: 9 killed.
- 3/2/2006. US. Consulate Karachi, Pakistan (again): 4
killed (one Diplomat).
- 9/12/2006. US Embassy in Damascus, Syria: 4 killed.
- 3/18/2008. US Embassy in Sana'a, Yemen: 2 killed.
- 7/9/2008. US Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey: 6 killed.
- 9/17/2008. US Embassy Sana'a, Yemen (again): 16 killed.
Source: OnTheIssues FactCheck on Benghazi
Jul 2, 2015
On Immigration:
FactCheck: Yes, would increase Syrian refugees by 550%
Trump asserted that Hillary would increase Syrian refugee admissions "by 550%" -- is that accurate?Yes, the current number of resettled Syrian refugees in the U.S. is 10,000 and Hillary proposes an increase the number to 65,000, which is indeed a
550% increase.
President Obama set a limit of 10,000 Syrian refugees for 2016, which Hillary Clinton called "a good start" on a goal of 65,000, who would be admitted after a vetting process that takes 18-24 months.
A group of fourteen Senate Democrats called for the 65,000 figure in mid-2015. The total number of refugees is currently about 4.5 million, most of whom reside in temporary refugee camps. About 160,000 have been permanently re-settled worldwide,
including 40,000 in Germany, 40,000 in Sweden, 31,000 elsewhere in Europe, and 10,000 in the U.S. [Sources: Al Jazeera 1/28/16 and Amnesty International and Oxfam reports]
Source: OnTheIssues Fact-Checking on 2016 presidential hopefuls
Oct 9, 2016
On Immigration:
FactCheck: Yes, voted for a partial wall on Mexican border
[Clinton and Trump went back-and-forth on border security]:- CLINTON: "I have been for border security for years; I voted for border security in the US Senate."
- TRUMP: "Hillary Clinton wanted the wall in 2006 or thereabouts."
- CLINTON:
I voted for border security, and there are some limited places where [a wall] was appropriate."
- Who's right?
They both can claim to be correct here, based on these two YES votes by Hillary as Senator:-
Vote #235 on June 28, 2007 on S.1639, the McCain-Kennedy Immigration Reform Bill: "Establishes specified benchmarks which must be met [before comprehensive reform, including] operational control of the border with Mexico; Border Patrol increases; border
barriers, including vehicle barriers, fencing, radar, and aerial vehicles.
- Vote #262 on Sept. 29, 2006 on H.R.6061, the Secure Fence Act:[including] "physical infrastructure enhancements to prevent unlawful border entry."
Source: OnTheIssues Fact-checking on Third 2016 Presidential Debate
Oct 19, 2016
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