Fact Checkers Agree: Bernie Sanders Voted To Protect The Minutemen

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At last night’s debate, Senator Sanders was confronted with his vote in support of an amendment to protect the “extreme nativist” vigilante group known as the Minutemen – and then flatly denied voting to support them.

JORGE RAMOS: Did you support the Minutemen? Did you support the Minutemen as the Secretary said?

BERNIE SANDERS: Of course not. There was a piece of legislation supported by dozens and dozens of members of the House which codified existing legislation.

The fact checkers have weighed in and concluded that Clinton was right:

Washington Post Fact Checker: “While Sanders suggested the measure was a small part of a larger bill, it was approved in a recorded vote as a stand-alone amendment.”
Politifact: “Still, as with Clinton’s charge about indefinite detention, her statement about Sanders supporting an amendment favorable to the Minutemen is largely accurate.”
Politico Wrongometer: “Actually, Sanders did vote to protect the Minutemen”
AP Fact Check: “THE FACTS: She was right about his vote”
Factcheck.org: “But in this case, Sanders voted in favor of a stand-alone amendment proposed by Minutemen-friendly Republicans. Sanders argued that the legislation merely codified existing policy, but it was opposed by a majority of Democrats.”

http://correctrecord.org/fact-checkers-agree-bernie-sanders-voted-to-protect-the-minutemen/

[RobertEarl]

1. Hillary voted to allow bush to invade Iraq n/t

[lunamagica]

2. K&R.

[Perogie]

3. If you limit someone's rights you limit your own.

This is what Bernie voted for.
The amendment barred the Department of Homeland Security from providing “a foreign government information relating to the activities of an organized volunteer civilian action group, operating in the State of California, Texas, New Mexico, or Arizona.”

No matter how much you dislike the Minutemen they have the right to patrol the border as long as they do not commit any crimes. Just like a Neighborhood watch has the right to patrol their streets.

The Government shouldn't be involved unless their is criminal activity.

[Cheese Sandwich]

4. And all of them are wrong since the text of the amendment did not mention the Minutemen

Literally, Bernie did not ever vote to protect the Minutemen.

[damonm]

5. And, moreover...

Since the US Border Patrol never tips off the Mexican government about patrols of any sort anyway, all this amendment did was tell the Border Patrol to keep doing things like it already was...

[Persondem]

6. Awwww St. Bernie got some dirt on his halo. K& R nt

[BernieforPres2016]

7. David Axelrod said on Twitter that this is the article he was told this Hillary attack was based on

http://www.buzzfeed.com/evanmcsan/in-2006-bernie-sanders-voted-in-support-of-an-immigration-co#.ncdxakvEM

<Rep. Olav Sabo, a Minnesota Democrat and ranking member on the Homeland Security Committee, was the sole member of his party to speak on the amendment.

“I claim the time in opposition; but, Mr. Chairman, I don’t rise in opposition,” he said. He said Customs officials had told him they already didn’t share information with the Mexican government except for where required by treaty.

“If people want to put it in the bill, I guess that is okay because it apparently does nothing,” he quipped.

The Sanders campaign cited Sabo’s vote when explaining Sanders’ support for the largely symbolic, pro-Minuteman measure.

“People put forward nuisance amendments all the time,” Michael Briggs, Sanders’s top communications strategist and longtime aide, told BuzzFeed News. “In this case, the Customs and Border Patrol [according to Sabo] said it was a meaningless thing and [Sanders] and Sabo voted for it.”>

This is the best Hillary's opposition research scumbags can come up with on Bernie?

[Coincidence]

9. Surprise, more spin. Not that it isn't obvious when they entirely omit the details of the bill. nt

[BernieforPres2016]

16. I don't think Axelrod was spinning

I think he was saying it was a cheap shot by the Clinton campaign based on a meaningless provision buried in a bigger bill. Axelrod is the same guy who debunked the Clinton lies on Bernie voting against the auto bailout in each of the last 2 debates. He put a tweet up debunking it before the debate on Sunday night was even over.

[Coincidence]

8. So just generic legislation protecting Minutemen? Why so suspiciously vague? Sure seems intentional.

[UglyGreed]

10. David Brock

Correct the Record.................

[noamnety]

11. YOUR SOURCE IS A HILLARY SUPERPAC

http://www.factcheck.org/2016/01/correct-the-record

[UglyGreed]

12. It's not bias

and David Brock is a honest fellow.................

[liberal_at_heart]

13. Has anybody else noticed that some of these OPs are hit and runs?

[Raster]

14. Of course they are....

...the sock puppet, er, my mistake - POSTER - has no intention of sticking around to qualify, quantify or support their crap post. It is literally hit-and-run.

[Bread and Circus]

15. Another David Brock propaganda site... what is wrong with you people?

[AgingAmerican]

17. David Brock is a pathological liar

Who works for Hillary.