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Another day, another illustration of a federal government that’s clueless and winging it. Just hours after releasing a redacted transcript of the Orlando terrorist’s 911 call, the Fed decided to reverse itself and released the full, uncensored version.

In 2012 they largely succeeded in lying to the American people about the real events in Benghazi. It eventually came out but the Obama/Hillary regime went into overdrive lying about that terrorist attack to save Obama’s re-election. So why wouldn’t they attempt the same thing again?

At first they argued that censoring it was a matter of not allow his “propaganda” to be promoted, then they said it was to be sensitive to the victims and their families. Both of those excuses are laughable. How does censoring the nature and motives of a known Islamic terrorist that killed your loved one help the families?

It’s madness, of course, and is simply a lie. Obama and his gang have been pushing this hate crime and gun violence narrative since the atrocity happened and they simply did not want the words of the terrorist himself to contradict their narrative.

These people live in a fantasy world, now scrambling at every turn to have real life censored or twisted and a bizarre effort to make it match their preferred political lie. How much longer are we going to put up with this garbage?

Via Fox News.

Under pressure from Republican leaders, the Justice Department on Monday afternoon reversed itself and released a full, unredacted transcript of the Orlando terrorist’s 911 call on the night of the massacre, calling the morning’s furor over omissions in the document “an unnecessary distraction.”

An earlier version of the transcript had deleted the word “Islamic State” and the name of ISIS leader “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.” Omar Mateen made the 50-second 911 call in which he claimed responsibility for the terror attack and pledged allegiance to Islamic State’s leader at 2:35 a.m. The call came just over a half hour into the June 12 slaughter at gay nightclub Pulse.

“I pledge allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi may God protect him [in Arabic], on behalf of the Islamic State,” Mateen says on the new transcript.

The old version had several words scrubbed and read: “I pledge allegiance to [omitted] may God protect him [in Arabic], on behalf of [omitted].”

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., called the earlier decision by DOJ and the FBI to release only a partial transcript “preposterous.”

“We know the shooter was a radical Islamist extremist inspired by ISIS,” Ryan said in a statement. “We also know he intentionally targeted the LGBT community. The administration should release the full, unredacted transcript so the public is clear-eyed about who did this, and why.”

Republican Florida Gov. Rick Scott also took aim at the edited accounting of Mateen’s statements the night he killed 49 and wounded 53 more.

“This is evil, this is ISIS. It’s radical Islam,” Scott told Fox News earlier Monday. “At some point, we lost 49 lives here and we lost a journalist who was beheaded by ISIS. We need a president that’s going to say I care about destroying ISIS.”

Attorney General Loretta Lynch went on numerous Sunday talk shows with the news that the partial transcripts would be released on Monday, immediately generating controversy from not only elected officials, but media outlets. On Monday, the White House said the decision was made solely by the Justice Department.

“All of the decisions about releasing the transcripts were made by Justice Department officials,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said at the daily press briefing at the White House. “The view of the White House is that we should not interfere with an ongoing investigation and rather that those decisions should be made consistent with the assessment by law enforcement officials about the best way to advance the investigation.”

The FBI and DOJ reversed the morning decision and released the full transcript in an afternoon news release.

“Unfortunately, the unreleased portions of the transcript that named the terrorist organizations and leaders have caused an unnecessary distraction from the hard work that the FBI and our law enforcement partners have been doing to investigate this heinous crime,” the organizations said in a statement.

The only complete transcript released was of the 911 calls. Several calls made later to crisis negotiators were only released in summarized form with few direct quotes provided.

So, while they released the 911 call, they’re still with holding several other calls from the public. All of this is unacceptable.

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  1. Alain41 says:

    I think that from the beginning, the purpose of redactgate is to avoid making the audio public. Essentially the strategy of, we want X so we’ll say that we want 2X and then after pushback, we’ll ‘relent’ and say okay it won’t be 2X just X, and the little people will think that they have won and move on. Audio would have to be played on every news channel and it’s powerful, whereas a transcript can be dealt with by just passively acknowledging. My question is, was Ryan/GOPe in on it or just an easy mark? Now, he can strut around and say, see we are leading the fight against Obama’s unseemly actions. But then I’ve become rather cynical.

  2. Vintageport says:

    Now there are calls for the AG’s head (no, not literally—those would be coming from the left if this were a Republican administration) because she said that love would be the best way to respond to radical Islamic terrorism. Of course she didn’t use the r and I words. Why demand Lynch resign when it was likely not her words that she uttered but those of Valerie Jihad?

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