White House said it was DOJ who made the decision. But the head of the DOJ wouldn’t say who did it? Gee, why do I think it wasn’t her decision?
Via Politico:
Attorney General Loretta Lynch refused Wednesday to say who made the decision to remove references to the Islamic State and its leader from the publicly released version of a transcript of a 911 call involving the Orlando nightclub shooter.
“The goal is of course the greatest transparency. The initial thought was we did not want to provide a further platform for the propaganda of the killer. Once it became an issue, we decided we would go ahead and release the full transcript,” Lynch said Wednesday during a press conference about a crackdown on Medicare fraud.
Pressed on who decided to remove the references to ISIL, as well as the name of deceased shooter Omar Mateen, Lynch remained vague.
“I’m not going to go into the detail of the process behind it,” Lynch said. “Our review was not to further spread the propaganda, but once it became a distraction, we released the whole transcript.”