Why did the White House just humiliate Loretta Lynch?
By Post Editorial Board
Idiotic: That’s the only word for the Obama administration’s move to scrub references to Islam or ISIS from the transcripts of Orlando terrorist Omar Mateen’s calls.
Under an avalanche of
ridicule, the Justice Department on Monday relented
and released the full transcripts. But what was the point? Everyone
already knew that he’d pledged allegiance to ISIS and its “caliph.”
Fine: President Obama
wants to make this about gun control, not terrorism — but ham-handed editing
only calls attention to what you’re deleting, and to
Obama’s peevish rules against uttering terms like “radical Islam.”
Just look at the
redactions:
Mateen: “I pledge of
allegiance to [omitted]. “I pledge allegiance to [omitted] may God protect him
[in Arabic], on behalf of [omitted].”
All the
omissions did was make Team Obama look determined to keep its head in the sand
about the nature of the enemy.
Even the
“explanations” sounded dumb. Here’s Attorney General Loretta Lynch on ABC’s
“This Week”: “What we’re not going to do is further proclaim this man’s pledges
of allegiance to terrorist groups, and further his propaganda.”
Further his
propaganda? Seriously? The answer to Islamist jihad is to black out the words?
Lynch never did
anything this absurd in all her years as US attorney here in New York, so
you know the order came down from above.
It’s also idiocy déjà
vu: Four years ago, Team Obama made then-UN Ambassador Susan Rice tour all the
Sunday shows to blame the deadly Benghazi attack on an internet video, rather
than on the terrorist plot they all knew it was. She looked a fool
once the administration finally admitted the truth, just
as Loretta Lynch does now.
It makes you wonder:
Who at the White House feels compelled to send women of color out to
humiliate themselves on national TV?
