Bloggers, on June 13, wrote that Hillary Clinton’s “State Department blocked investigation into Orlando killer’s mosque.”
Articles claimed that Clinton as secretary of state enabled radical Islamists by shutting down an investigation of Mateen’s Florida mosque.
The claim relies heavily on one account of a retired Department of Homeland Security agent that has not been corroborated by any additional source.
Experts we talked to say the claims of the investigation and the purported link to Clinton and the State Department is unlikely. The FBI, not Haney’s Homeland Security department, would handle a terrorism investigation. The State Department, meanwhile, would play little to no role in whether a case is opened, closed or anything else.
We rate this claim False.
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