Republican Senate candidate in Michigan, Mike Rogers, lied to his supporters in a recent email by suggesting he was involved in the effort to kill Osama Bin Laden, according to The Guardian.

In a fundraising email to supporters, shared on Twitter by journalist Azi Paybarah, Rogers claimed he saw Bin Laden’s dead body himself after the al-Qaeda leader was shot and killed at his compound in Pakistan in May 2011 by American forces.

“When I served as a US Army officer and an FBI special agent, I swore a sacred oath to defend the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” Rogers wrote. “I dedicated my life to keeping our families safe – working in the shadows, hunting down terrorists, and standing on the frontlines of our national security.”

“I saw the dead body of Osama bin Laden with my own eyes, knowing that together, we had delivered justice for America,” he added.

However, Rogers was not in Abbottabad, Pakistan, when Bin Laden was killed. Rogers was also not in the White House Situation Room, where then-President Barack Obama, VP Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and other senior administration officials followed the raid in real time. The Guardian reported.

The outlet noted that Rogers was at home in Washington, D.C. at the time of the raid and was informed about it by Obama’s CIA director, Leon Panetta.

Rogers was chair of the House Intelligence Committee, and Paybarah suggested that he must have been referring to the fact that he was one of the few US officials to have seen a photograph of Bin Laden’s dead body and exaggerating his role.

Rogers is the Republican candidate for Michigan’s open US Senate seat. He is running against progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed. The non-partisan Cook Political Report rates the race a “toss-up.”