MONDAY, JUNE 20, 2016

Sometime When You Try To Clean Up Something, You Only Make It Dirtier

The Clarion Project says in an interview with NBC, we learned from Obama’s General Loretta Lynch that only a partial transcript of the 911 calls made by the Orlando shooter would be released by the FBI to the public.

The Blower also remembers when the Obama administration “scrubbed” a series of lies surrounding Obama’s Iran Deal, and now what will be omitted from the transcripts will be references to the motive of the shooter – namely, his pledge of allegiance to the Islamic State as well as his Islamist grievances about American foreign policy vis-à-vis Muslim countries.

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

Yet earlier when announcing the release of the transcripts, Lynch told CNN, “It’s been our goal to get as much information into the public domain as possible, so people can understand, as we do, possibly what motivated this killer, what led him to this place, and also provide us with information.”

But when pressed by CNN what those transcripts will tell us about his motivation, Lynch calmly answers, “He talked about his pledges of allegiance to a terrorist group. He talked about his motivations for why he was claiming at that time he was committing this horrific act. He talked about American policy…”

Yet, those passages were the very ones that will be redacted, as Lynch explained in an Orwellian fashion on CNN, “The reason why we’re going to limit these transcripts is to avoid re-victimizing those who went through this horror.”

To the contrary. The immediate victims of this attack as well as the larger American public deserve to know and be able to discuss the motivations of this attack.

 It is hard to imagine how speaking openly about the motive – so that steps can be made to prevent such an attack from happening again – can “re-victimize” the victims. Loved ones have been lost. Nothing will bring them back. Others have been injured – most likely maimed for life both physically and psychologically.

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What will help both the victims and the public at large is trying knowing that proper steps have been taken to prevent such a horror from happening again, and that justice will ultimately prevail.

The Blower says to be sure, un-scrubbing these transcripts needs be added to President Trump’s “Things to Undo List” for January 20, 2017 in only 214 more days.