AP FACT CHECK: The GOP rush to blame Clinton

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's new running mate and other Republicans are wrongly accusing Hillary Clinton of speaking with indifference about the death of Americans in Benghazi, Libya — twisting her comments out of context to make their indictment.

Republicans have persistently criticized the Obama administration for initially and wrongly blaming the attack on an anti-U.S. protest.

PENCE: "In my home state of Indiana we prove every day that you can build a growing economy on balanced budgets, low taxes."

[...] his biggest contribution to "low taxes" was a reduction of Indiana's income-tax rate from 3.4 percent to 3.3 percent last year — a savings of about $50 a year for someone with $50,000 in taxable income.

The deal suspends oil, trade and financial sanctions in return for Iran rolling back its nuclear program.

Before the deal, Iran was just a few months away from having enough weapons-grade uranium to build 10 to 12 nuclear weapons, according to the U.S. government.

[...] if Iran were to race toward an atomic weapon, the Obama administration and most independent experts say it would need at least a year, which they say would be enough time to discover the effort and intervene.

[...] an assertion fits the GOP convention's theme of raising fears about the nation's current political leadership, but it's a stretch to say the danger has escalated since the 9/11 attacks.

Terrorist groups such as the Islamic State have exploited social media to promote sudden and frightening acts of violence, and some mass killers in the last year have publicly espoused radical ideology.

The FBI has reinvented itself into a terrorism-fighting agency, securing surveillance powers that have diminished the likelihood of a coordinated attack in multiple cities.