Business as usual. Never mention Islamic terrorism. Blame mental illness or a bad childhood.
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced on NBC's Meet the Press and the other Sunday morning TV talk shows that on Monday, the Department of Justice will release "partial" transcripts of phone conversations between law enforcement and Omar Mateen on June 12 during his terrorist massacre in Orlando, Florida.
Asked why the transcripts would only be partial, Lynch told MTP host Chuck Todd that "what we're not going to do is further proclaim this individual's pledges of allegiance to terrorist groups and further his propaganda."
Omar Mateen's ISIS backing has already been widely reported. And while avoiding broadcasting propaganda is one thing, it seems likely that the actual intention is to edit out any of his references to Islamic terrorism or Islam as part of a larger policy of censoring any mentions of Islam in relation to terrorism.
That is propaganda. Of a very specific and far more destructive kind.
ISIS will broadcasting plenty of its own propaganda, but the American people deserve to know the truth.