Posted on 06/19/2016 4:50:11 PM PDT by Kaslin
As part of the Sunday morning roundup, Attorney General Loretta Lynch made the rounds of the cable news shows to preview a report that the Justice Department will be releasing tomorrow regarding the Orlando terror attack. As with most of the coverage of the story we’ve seen over the past week, there was a rush to find out if the attacker was some sort of racist or homophobe and if that’s what led to all the carnage we saw. One of Lynch’s first stops was with Dana Bash, who was filling in for Jake Tapper on CNN’s State of the Union. The Attorney General first wanted to make sure everyone knows that the FBI did the best they could. (The Hill)
“At the time, the FBI did everything it could to see if he was about to carry out anything.”
The FBI had said they previously interviewed Mateen about possible connections to terrorism, but determined he wasn’t a threat. Evidence shows he may have been radicalized and inspired by extremist ideology.
Mateen, who died in a shootout with police, allegedly praised the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and other terrorist groups during the killings.
Lynch is promising that the report tomorrow will not be a full transcript of the shooter’s conversations with law enforcement, but that they will seek to let people know “what motivated this killer” while mentioning his pledges of allegiance to this terror group. But Bash jumped right into the topic of chief interest to the media. Was he screaming about gay men kissing or any related subject? This part of the interview begins right around the 1:30 mark in the clip.
FULL Loretta Lynch INTERVIEW ON CNN "State of the Union" with Dana Bash (19/6/2016)
Attorney General Loretta Lynch: It will contain the substance of his conversations. And there were three conversations between this killer and negotiators.
Dana Bash: He was, of course, in a gay nightclub. Did he talk about his feelings about gay Americans?
Lynch: You know, he didn’t get into that. So we’re still exploring why he chose this particular place to attack. We’re asking people who have information to come forward… We are trying to learn everything we can about this individuals motivations. As you note, he was in a gay nightclub. This was an act of terror and an act of hate targeted against a community, the LGBT community, the Latino community, and of course the LGBT community is so far too often the victims of these types of crimes.
To her credit, Bash asks the question which Social Justice Warriors have been desperately seeking a positive, reinforcing answer on. Did he attack the nightclub patrons because he was going after gays? Keep in mind that the standoff between law enforcement and the terrorist lasted for roughly three hours and, as Lynch reminds us, there were three extensive conversations between them. They obviously asked him why he was doing it as part of their negotiating tactics and he talked about US policy and his dedication to ISIS. With that much time on his hands, if he was some hate filled, right wingnut American (though a registered Democrat) who was making a statement along those lines, don’t you suppose it might have come up?
But notice how seamlessly our Attorney General glides from providing a factual answer to Bash’s question into the administration’s preferred narrative, as well as that of most of the media. Did he talk about gay Americans? No, “he didn’t get into that.” But she then immediately pivots to talking about what progressives want to make this into, despite the fact that she’s already admitted that the terrorist didn’t even suggest such a thing when prompted to discuss his motives.
Lynch showed up on Face the Nation shortly after this and recited the same lines. John Dickerson prompted her by saying he “mentioned ISIS” and asked “what else” he talked about. Did he mention LGBT? She said, yet again, he didn’t bring it up “in that conversation” but then jumped right into the LGBT and Hispanic angle.
Is it any wonder that a recent Gllup poll showed that only 29% of Democrats labeled the shooting as an act of Islamic terror? But 60% described it as an act of “domestic gun violence.” What planet are we living on where one party in this country can ring up those sorts of numbers? How many more blows with the clue bat do you need? A pledge of support to ISIS… trips overseas… a father who supports the Taliban and remains active in Afghanistan politics… an attack during Ramadan. And yet the Democrats are trying to turn this into an election issue over repealing the Second Amendment and how conservatives must want to kill gays and lesbians.
They’re getting the job done, though. I just finished reading a recent piece from Jonathan Capehart where he goes on at length comparing the Orlando killer and his father to a gay themed scene from the movie American Beauty. No… seriously. I’m not making that up. Go read it for yourself. It’s as if we’ve shown up at the wrong garden party and followed Alice down the rabbit hole.
so now the feds are over ruling Florida Public Records Act? Impeach her
Those people were not shot because they were gay. They were shot because they were unarmed.
Why would anyone quote this woman and why would anyone interview this woman... she can’t tell the truth about anything.
She edited the 911 terrorist’s call.. took out the part where he mentioned isis, so they can say it was the republican’s fault and guns have to be restricted .. and the republicans will do the usual.. let the lie stand. obama and this woman are 2 peas in a corrupt pod of deceit.
They could not do all they do if it were not for the media and the republican congress.
I presume Dana Bash and John Dickerson failed to ask Lynch:
1) Who Seddique Mateen met with at the White House and State Department?;
2) Why the White House and State Dept met with Seddique?
3) Was the DoJ/FBI aware of Seddique’s association with the administration at the time Omar Mateen was being investigated for connections to terrorism? (How could they fail to be?)
4) Did the DoJ/FBI interview Seddique as part of investigating Omar? If not, why?
5) What was the nature of all contacts from the administration to the DoJ/FBI during the earlier FBI investigations of Omar Mateen?
6) What was the effect of those contacts on the investigations?
It is almost impossible to imagine that the FBI would fail to find out that their terrorism investigation target’s daddy was a White House/DoS visitor.
Loretta Taqiyya Lynch
I am getting tired of all these local groups on tv each night wearing rainbow clothing in memory of ...
They’d get more backing if they were gathering in memory of Americans slaughtered by another demon moo slim.
Like a cat in the sandbox after swallowing a cake of Ex-Lax.
“Evidence shows he may have been radicalized and inspired by extremist ideology”.
Now they admit that he read the koran and acted on what it commanded.
Apparently lies are also being spread about a psychologist who is supposed to have evaluated Mateen, but who no longer worked in that job when the evaluation was reported to have been made.
They'll claim he was reading Trump's web site.
It's NOT extremist ideology it's MUSLIM ideology. That's the problem... Islam.
As much as the thugs in the Obama Administration want to believe that devote Baptists and extreme Muslims are the same they are NOT the same.
Obama's thugs want a 'one size fits all' because they're effing totalitarian thugs. Hateful horrible lower class thugs... There is NO NADA ZIP ZERO equivalence between Christianity and Islam. Obama needs to give up that delusion or become a laughing stock.
Death to homosexuals may not be a conservative position, but it is clearly a position, law and conduct in a number of Islamic countries and African countries with strong Islamic and sometimes Christian influence.
Don’t forget that he and his wife scoped out Disney world as well. This was about terrorism, not gays.
And next they will edit in some questions by the 911 dispatcher - "Are you doing this because you hate Gay people?" just before he says something like "yes, yes".....
It was simply a high target number location.....
Thanks glee'. Re-ping for this interesting link.
REFERENCE “Obama Decree Unleashes “Behavioral Science” Squad to “Nudge” You
(by Alex Neman Sept. 18, 2015, The New American)
“Under the guise of better “serving” the American people through government, Obama signed an executive order this week calling for federal agencies and departments to deploy emerging “behavioral science” techniques against the public.
“The Obama order also establishes a Social and Behavioral Sciences Team charged with applying psychological research to manipulate the beliefs and behaviors of Americans under various pretexts, and guide the vast federal bureaucracy as it hones its abilities to manipulate the public. “ --SNIP--
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ANIMA MUNDI INSIGHTFULLY POSTED---people believe the absurd----(a) a total turn around on public opinion on gay marriage, (b) global warming tagged climate change in order to maintain credibility, and, (c) even in the face of Hillary looking into the camera and admitting to lying and betrayal, she still is supported.
(Adding: (d) Muslims are peaceful, (e) Mexico is our friend, (f) illegals violate our borders looking for a better life, (g) The Clinton Foundation is saving the globe.)
Behavioral Sciences and psychology are dismissed by our side while being USED by the other side. Psychology is not just “counseling” or some frivolous study. It is a weapon when used in certain ways to strategically position image, words, feelings of large groups of people.
Trayvon Martin becomes a cause, the Gentle Giant is on everyone’s lips, but Kate Steinle killed by an illegal in San Francisco??? Well, “things happen.” Benghazi? “Well, so long ago”, etc.
We had better start paying attention to this stuff and grab the language, stop using their terms, stop giving into their demands, stop apologizing for offending them, stop changing team names and acting as if their complaints are real when they are not.
All of it is connected and goes back to manipulation of public opinion. These tools are available to us as well. Reframe arguments, never let anything go just to be popular.
She is a lying scumbag....
NLP
An attack against ANY of our citizens - or our legal guests - is an attack on our Country.
These people are at war with us... and I’m not just talking about Lynch and her thugs.
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