‘Pants on fire’ for Perry’s claim that Obama ignored letter on border security
Gov. Rick Perry ‘s recent comments claiming President Obama hasn’t responded to an inquiry for more border security aid from three years ago has been declared outright false by one fact-checking website.
Perry made the comment to Wolf Blitzer during an appearance on CNN’s “The Situation Room” at the beginning of April. He told Blitzer “the president hadn’t called up the governor of one of the largest states who has the longest border with Mexico and said, ‘Governor what do you think we need to do about the issue of immigration?’ I would be open to that conversation any day.”
He noted he’d given Obama a letter in 2010 on the tarmac of an Austin airport about the issue and hadn’t received a response.
Politifact deemed Perry’s comment as “pants on fire” lie. The fact checking website found that a follow up letter had been delivered to Perry several days later by current CIA Director John Brennan, who was at the time, an assistant to the president for homeland security and counter-terrorism. Politifact said the letter didn’t address a lot of Perry’s concerns written in his letter, but noted the Southwest Border Security Act Obama signed several days after his Texas visit that provided more security along the border.
More at http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2013/04/texmessage-pants-on-fire-for-perrys-claim-that-obama-ignored-letter-on-border-security/ .
