{"id":13864,"date":"2014-10-10T00:43:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T07:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13864"},"modified":"2014-10-10T00:43:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T07:43:33","slug":"republicans-on-parade10102014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/10\/republicans-on-parade10102014\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade–10\/10\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here is the sixty-third article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA). He is so honored for fear mongering with one of the most absurd conspiracy theories to date.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"GOPHat\"The Department of Homeland Security flatly denied on Wednesday a claim from a California Congressman that the ISIS terror army is quietly slipping into the United States through its porous southern border \u2013 and that American border patrol agents have already captured ten of its soldiers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Republican Duncan Hunter told a Fox News Channel audience on Tuesday that ISIS, the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, is actively infiltrating the U.S.<\/p>\n

‘I know that at least ten ISIS fighters have been caught coming across the Mexican border in Texas,’ he said. ‘There’s nobody talking about it.’<\/p>\n

But DHS fired back, saying in a statement that Hunter’s claim is ‘categorically false<\/strong>.’<\/p>\n

‘The suggestion that individuals who have ties to ISIL have been apprehended at the Southwest border is categorically false, and not supported by any credible intelligence or the facts on the ground,’ a Homeland Security spokesman said in a statement, using the administration’s preferred alternative acronym for the group\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <The Daily Mail<\/a>><\/p>\n

Rachel Maddow has all the details and covered the story on Debunktion Junction.<\/font><\/p>\n