Posted on 06/29/2016 11:31:52 PM PDT by Strac6
While Attorney General Loretta Lynch holds firm to her claim that the motive of Orlando terrorist Omar Mateen may never be known, the FBI is instructing Florida agencies that responded to the attack that night to deny requests for public records pertaining to the case.
Mateen called police several times during the three hour ordeal to declare his allegiance to ISIS, yet only a fraction of his discussions with authorities that night have been released to the public — first an edited version, than an unedited one.
In response to a lawsuit by local media seeking the release of the 911 audio, the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office released a letter they got from the FBI instructing them to deny all requests for information and refer news outlets seeking information to the feds.
The letter reads, in part:
"As you know, this is an active, on-going investigation being conducted by the FBI. The FBI considers information obtained from the state and local enforcement agencies in furtherance of its investigation to be evidence or potential evidence. Accordingly, the FBI is concerned that public disclosure of such records or information at this time will adversely affect our ability to effectively investigate the shooting and bring the matter to resolution; could endanger the safety of law enforcement officers, and other individuals who have participated in or are otherwise connected with the investigation; and risks unduly prejudicing any prosecutions that may result from the investigation."
The letter is signed by Paul Wysopal, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Tampa field office.
Those recordings and all records are public records under Florida law and are subject to freedom of information requests.
The “FBI doesn’t have the authority to hijack Florida’s constitution, which guarantees us a right of access to all non-exempt public records,” Barbara Petersen, President of the First Amendment Foundation, told the Orlando Sentinel.
On orders from the FBI, the city of Orlando has thus far refused to release any records, they say, “out of respect for the Pulse shooting victims and the families” and at the “direction of the FBI,”
In the aftermath of the terrorist attack which left 49 people dead and 53 wounded, the White House shifted the narrative away from a terrorist attack to an attempt to impose gun control and claims of homophobia. Mateen was reported to have been a self-loathing gay man, but reports say the FBI has found zero evidence to substantiate that claim.
More laughably, the terrorist also had bomb making material and was planning and placing bombs on his hostages, placing them in the corners of the building to cause the building to collapse. Even if guns were controlled, guns are not the cause of the problem.
hence the special relationship developed with
GOOGLE
FACEBOOK
TWITTER
social media
Hollywood
Crisis Actors
NY Times
the alphabet TV channels
and the harassment of cable and independent news media
WE’RE LIVIN IT
I can’t stand much more of this transparency.
How do you indict the Republican Party? From the top down, bottom up or all together?
There is more here than is being reported.
This is full on Obama/Hillary panic mode.
Where did you read or hear that?
They lost her.
When the government lies to us it’s called politics. We we lie to the government its called a crime.
“Where is the wife? “
In Guantanamo getting waterboarded if our president had any nuts.
The Emperor Speaks
It was reported before the FBI took over the investigation, away from the locals.
It was also reported, when the authorities detonating the bomb making material the following day to keep the area safe.
Mateen had phoned the local authorities with demands and warned them he had taken hostages and turned them into bombs, placing them at the 4 corners of the bldg so that if the police entered, he would collapse the bldg.
This ties into the Santa Monica event later in the day when that terrorist from Indiana, called local police requesting protection, because he claimed he was part of a coordinated attack with the Orlando event. Things went wrong at the last minute and he feared he was being set up by an accomplice who was bringing the rest of the bomb making material to the gay parade, but never showed.
Such is what I remember from news reports at the time.
Go Figure.
I do not believe this is the country I grew up in. I do not believe this is the country I grew up in. I do not believe this is the country I grew up in. I do not believe this is the country I grew up in. I do not believe this is the country I grew up in. I do not believe this is the country I grew up in. I do not believe this is the country I grew up in. I do not believe this is the country I grew up in.
This is not the country I grew up in.
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