Maj. Nidal Hasan, the man accused of the Fort Hood shootings, "was an ADVISOR to the Obama Administration."
Van Jones signed a petition indicating he "thinks the Bush administration blew up the World Trade Center and covered it up."
The Obama administration offered "$900 million to Hamas, a recognized terrorist organization, to rebuild Gaza."
"Under the new and little known 'global justice' initiative," the Obama administration has ordered FBI agents to "read Miranda Rights to high-value terrorist detainees captured on the battlefield."
"Some 500 detainees were released from Guantanamo during the Bush administration."
"You've heard endlessly about waterboarding. It happened to three terrorists."
"Nobody has ever escaped from one of our federal 'supermax' prisons."
"The reality is, we are holding some of the most dangerous terrorists in the world right now in our federal prisons, including the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 'shoe bomber,' the 'Unabomber,' and many others."
On releasing photographs depicting the abuse of prisoners.
Democrats in Congress "had control since January of 2007. They haven't passed a law making waterboarding illegal. They haven't gone into any of these things and changed law."
"We were not, I repeat, were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used."
It is "the Department of Homeland Security's view that returning military veterans and gun owners are likely to commit terrorist acts."
"Barack Obama thinks terrorists just need a good talking to."
"For four days in Denver, the Democrats were afraid to use the words 'Islamic terrorism.'"
Says Obama flip-flopped on warrantless wiretapping.
The Rev. Wright compared "the United States Marine Corps with Roman legionnaires who were responsible for the death of our Savior."
Hillary Clinton "actually differed with (John McCain) by arguing for exceptions for torture before changing positions."
"You said you would vote against the Patriot Act, then you came to the Senate, you voted for it."
"America never made up for the gutting of the intelligence services that Bill Clinton did. I think those are (former CIA director George) Tenet's words ... that Bill Clinton gutted American intelligence."
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