QOTD: Duncan Hunter Jr
by digby
”[a]t least ten ISIS fighters have been caught coming across the border in Texas.”
Sure they have. When asked where he got the information he said from the Border Patrol.
Homeland Security said he is completely full of hot air:
“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,” the spokeswoman told The New Republic. “DHS continues to have no credible intelligence to suggest terrorist organizations are actively plotting to cross the southwest border.”
This is insane. Hunter isn’t some Tea Party gadfly or cynical talk radio gasbag. He’s a US congressman. And it doesn’t matter if a couple of border patrol yahoos told him this or he saw it in a peyote induced vision it’s cracked either way for him to be spewing this nonsense.
Good lord. If there’s one thing we’ve learned from all this is that it doesn’t take a spectacular terrorist attack like 9/11 to make these people foul their trousers in fear. A cheap video of an execution in a war zone by a guy in a scary costume will do the trick for a lot less planning, time and money.
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