Political correctness? Lynch says DOJ will censor Mateen’s pledges to ISIS

Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will modify transcripts of the calls Orlando shooter Omar Mateen made from his cellphone, including the calls in which he pledged his allegiance to ISIS.

On Monday, partial transcripts will be released on those phone conversations, but they will not include Mateen’s vow of allegiance to ISIS or any other religious justifications for the Orlando massacre that left 49 dead and 53 wounded.

“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].” The main goal is to determine why Mateen targeted the gay community, Lynch added in an interview with CBS.

However, this reasoning has been met with severe criticism across the nation. Critics are blasting the administration, claiming that the DOJ wants to eliminate all other motives so that the shooting can be considered a gun control issue and not an act of terror.

“This is not just a simple wording issue,” Rick Grenell told Fox and Friends Monday morning. Grenell is a Fox News contributor and former aide to UN Ambassador John Bolton. “The fact that Loretta Lynch is somehow redacting the specific enemy that is being called out here is a PR move.”