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Blanca Marisol PINEDA-GARCIA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 09-73663.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted July 17, 2012.
    
    Filed July 24, 2012.
    Blanca Marisol Pineda-Garcia, Los An-geles, CA, pro se.
    Anthony W. Norwood, Senior Litigation Counsel, Oil, Kathryn Deangelis, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Chief Counsel Ice, Office of the Chief Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
    Before: SCHROEDER, THOMAS, and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Blanca Marisol Pineda-Garcia, a native and citizen of El Salvador, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing her appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying her application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence the agency’s factual findings, applying the new standards governing adverse credibility determinations created by the Real ID Act. Shrestha v. Holder, 590 F.3d 1034, 1039 (9th Cir.2010). We deny the petition for review.

The BIA concluded Pineda-Garda was not credible for a number of reasons, including her lack of knowledge of the content of the flyers she distributed and the omission in her asylum application of one of three claimed incidents of harm. Substantial evidence supports the BIA’s finding. See id. at 1048 (adverse credibility finding reasonable under totality of the circumstances). Accordingly, we deny the petition as to Pineda-Garcia’s asylum and withholding of removal claims. See Farah v. Ashcroft, 348 F.3d 1153, 1156 (9th Cir.2003).

Because Pineda-Garcia’s CAT claim is based on the same testimony the BIA found not credible, and she does not point to any other evidence showing it is more likely than not she will be tortured if returned to El Salvador, her CAT claim also fails. See id. at 1156-57.

PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.