Omar Mateen
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on NBC News the administration was going to remove all mention of Omar Mateen’s pledges of allegiance to ISIS on the now-infamous emergency 9-1-1 calls he made during his gunfire massacre at an Orlando “gay” club.
Why?
She didn’t really explain, except to say it was an anti-propaganda issue.
“What we’re not going to do is further proclaim this man’s pledges of allegiance to terrorist groups and further his propaganda,” Lynch said, on NBC. “We are not going to hear him make his assertions of allegiance [to ISIS].”
A partial transcript of the back-and-forth between Mateen and emergency officials is due for release Monday. And while media around the world widely reported Mateen’s statements on this call included pledges of allegiance to an ISIS chief, Lynch said what’s going to be released to the public won’t contain those remarks.
Critics of the scrubbing say the feds are bending over backwards to show radical Islamism – something President Obama is reluctant to use as a phrase to describe acts of terror committed by radical Islamists – is not as big a threat as some in the fields of politics, national security and military intelligence would suggest.
“This is not just a simple wording issue,” said Ric Grenell, a former aide to U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, on “Fox & Friends” on Monday. “The fact that Loretta Lynch is somehow redacting the specific enemy that is being called out here is a PR move.”
Rudy Giuliani, former New York City mayor, also said on the same show that it’s not helpful in the investigative process to hide or conceal root causes.
“Why didn’t they do this with the Mafia, to spare Italian-Americans? Why? Because if you did,” Giuliani said, “you would never make the connection [that ultimately] brought them down.”
Mateen was shot and killed by police after he murdered 49 and injured 53 at Pulse, the “gay” hot spot in Orlando. But in the lead-up to his own death, Mateen made a 9-1-1 emergency call in which he declared his support for ISIS leader Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Lynch, during another interview on “Face the Nation” on CBS, said investigators are trying to determine why exactly Mateen targeted the “gay” community.
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