06-21-2016, 04:54 AM
Oh boy :
Time for the men in white coats to round up the lunatics and give each of them a padded cell.
The A/G and the FBI were of the view that redacting comments re ISIS would prevent ISIS using them as PR. Seems reasonable. What they didn't count on was the right-wing wingnuts being just as keen as ISIS to exploit the calls. The GOP and ISIS are keen to be the 2 sides of the same coin here. They each fuel the PR campaign of the other. Reminds me of an episode of Get Smart in which Max worried that eliminating Kaos would result in everyone at Control losing a job.
So what revelations have there been? The A/G noted that the redacted comments were related to ISIS. Did the specific comments take it much further? I don't think so.
But we have learnt that Mateen used the alleged ISIS link to make the police and FBI think he wasn't just a lone shooter. He told them there were explosives which he could detonate to kill anyone who attempted to storm the bathroom where he was holed up. He also claimed there would be other attacks within hours. This did change how the police reacted. They were far more cautious as a result. Ironically, he went too far in the end as he claimed he had explosive vests which he might detonate to kill the hostages and this precipitated the rescue. So, how much of the purported ISIS link was real and how much was it a ruse to convince law enforcement that he wasn't just a lone shooter and/or magnify the infamy of his big swansong?
Time for the men in white coats to round up the lunatics and give each of them a padded cell.
The A/G and the FBI were of the view that redacting comments re ISIS would prevent ISIS using them as PR. Seems reasonable. What they didn't count on was the right-wing wingnuts being just as keen as ISIS to exploit the calls. The GOP and ISIS are keen to be the 2 sides of the same coin here. They each fuel the PR campaign of the other. Reminds me of an episode of Get Smart in which Max worried that eliminating Kaos would result in everyone at Control losing a job.
So what revelations have there been? The A/G noted that the redacted comments were related to ISIS. Did the specific comments take it much further? I don't think so.
But we have learnt that Mateen used the alleged ISIS link to make the police and FBI think he wasn't just a lone shooter. He told them there were explosives which he could detonate to kill anyone who attempted to storm the bathroom where he was holed up. He also claimed there would be other attacks within hours. This did change how the police reacted. They were far more cautious as a result. Ironically, he went too far in the end as he claimed he had explosive vests which he might detonate to kill the hostages and this precipitated the rescue. So, how much of the purported ISIS link was real and how much was it a ruse to convince law enforcement that he wasn't just a lone shooter and/or magnify the infamy of his big swansong?