The following is a fact-check from the June 27 2010, episode of Meet the Press:


REP. BARBARA LEE (D-CA) | General Jones said that there are less than 100 members of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan – TRUE

REP. LEE: David, General… MR. GREGORY: Yeah, yeah. REP. LEE: …Jones actually indicated that, I believe, less than 100 members of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.

According to ABC, the Washington Times and an interview of General James Jones by Wolf Blitzer, Gen. Jones did say there were fewer than 100 members of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. Here is Gen. Jones:

The al Qaeda presence is very diminished. The maximum estimate is less than 100 operating in the country, no bases, no ability to launch attacks on either us or our allies.

Therefore, we will rate Barbara Lee’s statement TRUE.


This fact-check took a combined 20 minutes.