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What's Kelli Ward's record on national security? Dangerous and weak. She wanted to ban our intelligence agencies from operating in Arizona, leaving Arizonans vulnerable to attack from terrorists. Ward sided with conspiracy theorists and liberals over our troops and our national defense when she opposed the Defense Authorization Act, a bill critical to our national security. Kelly Ward. Bad judgement. Dangerous record. Arizona Grassroots Action PAC is responsible for the content of this advertising.
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This ad from a super PAC supporting incumbent Arizona Sen. John McCain claims his Republican opponent, Kelli Ward, a former state senator, "wanted to ban our intelligence agencies from operating in Arizona." PolitiFact rates this claim as "Mostly False."

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PAC claims former Arizona senator wanted to ban intelligence agencies
May 11, 2016

The ad claimed Ward "wanted to ban our intelligence agencies from operating in Arizona."

Ward did seek to limit the power of the NSA by preventing assistance from state and local law enforcement without a warrant. However, experts said calling it an outright "ban" on operations is beyond what the bill proposed.

The legislation was meant to discourage federal agencies from collecting information without a warrant.

We rate the ad’s claim as Mostly False.

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