By RFD Radio
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis is still seeing red over the Obama Administration’s handling of 911 transcripts from the Orlando mass shooting that left 49 dead.
The Taylorville Republican said omitting information about the shooter’s motives doesn’t make America safer.
“(It was) just an attempt at political correctness and I think it was wrong,” Davis said. “I’m glad they reconsidered after a lot of pressure from folks like me and many others in Washington and throughout this country, but they shouldn’t have done it in the first place.”
Davis said the initial effort to redact part of the 911 calls referring to radical Islam shows the White House is out of touch when it comes to battling homegrown terror.
“I think it shows that we need more transparency in government,” Davis said. “We need to make sure that people know what the true motives of killers like Omar Mateen are and is this case it was clearly radical Islamic terrorism.”
Transcripts of the 911 recordings had some parts redacted, but the Justice Department later reversed course and released the full transcripts.
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch has said investigators are still trying to determine a motive but said the shooting at the gay club was “clearly an act of terror and an act of hate.”
