Lynch: Authorities to release limited transcripts of calls with Orlando shooter

[mahatmakanejeeves]

18. "... sometimes you just have to trust the people in charge...."

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

I know some people want to see a conspiracy in everything, and that's just who's finding a conspiracy in this.

Rudolph Giuliani and John Bolton are upset? How can I go on?

Still, what good does it do for the DOJ to tell us what's in the transcripts and then say, "but you can't hear it"?

DOJ to scrub Islam references from transcripts of Orlando terrorist's calls to police

Published June 20, 2016

The Department of Justice is scrubbing references of radical Muslim beliefs from the transcripts of calls Orlando terrorist Omar Mateen made to police during his massacre, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Sunday.

A partial transcript of the conversations between authorities and Mateen, who killed 49 and wounded 53 in the June 12 attack at a Florida gay nightclub, is set to be released on Monday. But Lynch, who appeared on numerous Sunday talk shows, said the transcripts will not include Mateen's oath of loyalty to ISIS or any other religious justification for the attack.

“What we’re not going to do is further proclaim this man’s pledges of allegiance to terrorist groups, and further his propaganda,” Lynch told NBC. “We are not going to hear him make his assertions of allegiance {to the Islamic State}.”

Critics blasted the move by the administration, which has rejected branding terrorist acts as motivated by radical Islam and has sought to paint the Orlando attack as a gun control issue. ... "This is not just a simple wording issue," Ric Grenell, a Fox News contributor and former aide to UN Ambassador John Bolton told Fox and Friends Monday morning. "The fact that Loretta Lynch is somehow redacting the specific enemy that is being called out here is a PR move."

Fortunately, due to the secretive nature of the interwebs, the complete transcript - or what is purported to be the complete transcript - will never see the light of day.