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White House Feigns Ignorance About Orlando Terror Transcript Edits

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-06-21 03:14|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 'Feigning' Ignorance ?

Posted by Besoeker 2016-06-21 08:35|| 2016-06-21 08:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Aiding and abetting during time of war.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-06-21 09:18|| 2016-06-21 09:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Isn't it about time for an Islands get-away, rap artist, or NBA team visit to the White House? Whatever happened to honest media diversion ?

Posted by Besoeker 2016-06-21 10:37|| 2016-06-21 10:37|| Front Page Top

#4 He's probably too busy brushing up on his Polish (or, more likely, Spanish) for the upcoming trip.

Posted by Pappy 2016-06-21 11:02|| 2016-06-21 11:02|| Front Page Top

#5 As a taxpayer, if he just left and played golf until January I would be ok with subsidizing that.

Posted by DarthVader 2016-06-21 11:04|| 2016-06-21 11:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Here's the number to the Andrews AFB Golf Course. They're open 6AM-9PM daily:

(301) 736-4887

Posted by Besoeker 2016-06-21 11:09|| 2016-06-21 11:09|| Front Page Top

#7 F.B.I had decided to redact the transcript "consistent with their assessment about the best way to advance the investigation"

Josh Earnest's statement above is as stupid as the original deliberate deception (redaction/edit).

While the FBI is all sorts of jacked up already on this crime. The local police killed Mateen, not the FBI (one of the local police was shot in the head doing so). The FBI shows up late, after interviewing this guy twice, and further - fails to follow up on the gun store owners report, seizes the 911 tape and not only redact it, but edits (changes Allah to God) the transcript of the tape? I don't buy it - even a first year FBI agent knows that editing a transcript is an intentional deception/lie and will get them fired - it kills an investigation, it does not advance it. It is obvious that DOJ directed this mess.

Ignorance, Incompetence, not buying that either - this was deliberate deception. Lynch should be fired for directing this edit to happen, stupidly propagating it, and for blaming it on the FBI. Same pattern of conduct at DOJ as deliberately deceiving the Judge on Obama's deportation amnesty policy. The head of this fish is rotten.

Posted by Tennessee 2016-06-21 11:27|| 2016-06-21 11:27|| Front Page Top

#8 But FBI is ignorant & incompetent, Tennessee. Did you know that after 9/11, when they got orders to investigate/detain people from ME, they detained several Israeli students?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-06-21 11:33|| 2016-06-21 11:33|| Front Page Top

#9 But FBI is ignorant & incompetent, Tennessee. Did you know that after 9/11, when they got orders to investigate/detain people from ME, they detained several Israeli students?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru

While there are excellent individual agents and analysts...In regards to the FBI as an institution - I agree with you. When they refuse to learn the language of the threat, do not study the culture of the threat, and do not cultivate the authorities to address it...then they will remain mired in incompetence, ignorance and ineffectiveness...and we will continue to pay the price for this indifference.

Posted by Tennessee 2016-06-21 12:08|| 2016-06-21 12:08|| Front Page Top

#10 So now terrorists have to call 911 to tell their intent before hand so it will be clear to the lefties that a white guys is not doing the attack. Terrorists are tired of middles aged white guys getting all the credit. They now know the comprising POS in office will change the narative. They now need to call three news stations so their message will get our accurately.

Posted by 49 pan 2016-06-21 12:26|| 2016-06-21 12:26|| Front Page Top

#11 "FBI is ignorant & incompetent" - a long tradition of that in the US government, from 1812 when federal authorities couldn't be bothered to notify their military officers on the frontier that war had been declared against Great Britain, to February 1941 when the Martin-Bellinger assessment / prediction of the Dec 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor was consigned to the round file so thoroughly that even modern historians don't mention it.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2016-06-21 12:32|| 2016-06-21 12:32|| Front Page Top

#12 WH directly involved? No need. The FBI et al know perfectly well what the boss wants and that maintaining plausible deniability is paramount. In this case, Justice didn't think it through and made the Administration look bad. Consequences will follow at the appropriate time.

Posted by KBK 2016-06-21 12:57|| 2016-06-21 12:57|| Front Page Top

#13 It is now politically very important that the FBI appears to be "ignorant & incompetent."

Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2016-06-21 13:11|| 2016-06-21 13:11|| Front Page Top

#14 Sure, and identify a basement video as the Benghazi trigger was Hilarity's idea.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-06-21 13:26|| 2016-06-21 13:26|| Front Page Top

#15 Everyone knew what was in the transcripts from news reports so even suggesting you would redact them was incredibly stupid, it just caused folks to read the transcripts looking to find what was so worth censoring.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-06-21 13:56|| 2016-06-21 13:56|| Front Page Top

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