--- title: Orlando Shooting: Paul Ryan Criticizes Transcript Redactions description: House Speaker Paul Ryan criticized the FBI for not releasing all of the transcript of a 911 call made by Orlando shooter Omar Mateen. canonical: https://time.com/4375000/orlando-shooting-transcript-redactions-paul-ryan/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-20T16:46:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2024-01-24T12:43:13.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Speaker Criticizes FBI Over Redactions in Orlando Transcript og:description: He called it censorship. og:url: https://time.com/4375000/orlando-shooting-transcript-redactions-paul-ryan/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b49167d9ee62a16/698897f0524fc07cf0df862f/omar-mateen-orlando1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Undated photo from a social media account of Omar Mateen og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Speaker Criticizes FBI Over Redactions in Orlando Transcript twitter:description: He called it censorship. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b49167d9ee62a16/698897f0524fc07cf0df862f/omar-mateen-orlando1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Paul Ryan Criticizes FBI Over Redactions in Orlando Shooting Transcript by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Updated: Jan 24, 2024 12:43 PM UTCPublished: Jun 20, 2016 4:46 PM UTC  An undated photo of Omar Mateen, identified as the gunman in mass shooting at a gay club in Orlando, Fla., released on June 12, 2016. An undated photo of Omar Mateen, identified as the gunman in mass shooting at a gay club in Orlando, Fla., released on June 12, 2016.Handout/Reuters by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Updated: Jan 24, 2024 12:43 PM UTCPublished: Jun 20, 2016 4:46 PM UTC House Speaker Paul Ryan criticized the FBI for not releasing all of [the transcript of a 911 call](https://www.fbi.gov/tampa/press-releases/2016/investigative-update-regarding-pulse-nightclub-shooting) made by Orlando shooter Omar Mateen. The agency later released the full transcript. During the shooting at the Pulse nightclub, Mateen made a 50-second call to 911 to take responsibility. Law enforcement officials [previously told NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/orlando-nightclub-massacre/terror-hate-what-motivated-orlando-nightclub-shooter-n590496) that in the call he swore allegiance to the head of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, during the call, but those key words were redacted in the initial transcript released by the Tampa division of the FBI Monday: --- > “” --- Ryan called the decision to selectively edit the transcript “preposterous.” > [](https://twitter.com/SpeakerRyan/status/744914695153397760) Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Sunday that portions of the transcript would not be released. “What we’re not going to do is further proclaim this man’s pledges of allegiance to terrorist groups, and further his propaganda,”she [said in an interview on “Meet the Press.”](http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/06/19/lynch%5Fpartial%5Ftranscript%5Fof%5Forlando%5F911%5Fcalls%5Fwill%5Fhave%5Freferences%5Fto%5Fisis%5Fcut%5Fout.html) Later on Monday, the FBI released[ the unredacted transcript](https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/joint-statement-justice-department-and-fbi-regarding-transcript-related-orlando-terror-attack): --- > “” --- President Obama has said that there is [“no clear evidence”](http://time.com/4366418/orlando-shooting-isis-barack-obama/) that the Orlando shooting was tied to a larger plot or the Islamic State. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4375000/orlando-shooting-transcript-redactions-paul-ryan/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4375000/orlando-shooting-transcript-redactions-paul-ryan/"},"headline":"Paul Ryan Criticizes FBI Over Redactions in Orlando Shooting Transcript","datePublished":"2016-06-20T16:46:59.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-24T12:43:13.000Z","description":"House Speaker Paul Ryan criticized the FBI for not releasing all of the transcript of a 911 call made by Orlando shooter Omar Mateen.","url":"https://time.com/4375000/orlando-shooting-transcript-redactions-paul-ryan/","keywords":["Orlando Shooting","FBI","Paul Ryan","justice","loretta lynch"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b49167d9ee62a16/698897f0524fc07cf0df862f/omar-mateen-orlando1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b49167d9ee62a16/698897f0524fc07cf0df862f/omar-mateen-orlando1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Undated photo from a social media account of Omar Mateen","caption":"Undated photo from a social media account of Omar Mateen","creditText":"Handout/Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/orlando-shooting/","name":"Orlando Shooting"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4375000/orlando-shooting-transcript-redactions-paul-ryan/","name":"Paul Ryan Criticizes FBI Over Redactions in Orlando Shooting Transcript"}}]}] ```