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“You have to tell America to stop bombing Syria and Iraq. They’re killing a lot of innocent people,” Mateen said by phone, shortly before police shot him. “So what am I to do here when my people are getting killed over there?”
After the shooting, then-FBI Director James Comey said federal agents would examine their failures to stop Mateen before he attacked “in an open and honest way and be transparent about it.” The FBI has not disclosed what came of the examination. When The Intercept inquired about it one year after the attack, the FBI answered: “We have no comment.”
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