Speaker Ryan Calls on Administration to Release Complete Orlando 911 Transcript

— -- House Speaker Paul Ryan on Monday called on the Obama administration to release the full transcript of Orlando gunman Omar Mateen's conversations with police, and he criticized law enforcement's decision to release partial transcripts of the three 911 calls.

“Selectively editing this transcript is preposterous," Ryan said in a statement. "We know the shooter was a radical Islamist extremist inspired by ISIS. We also know he intentionally targeted the LGBT community. The administration should release the full, unredacted transcript so the public is clear-eyed about who did this, and why.”

The FBI released excerpts of Mateen's calls with police Monday morning to give the public a better sense of the situation as it unfolded at the Orlando nightclub Pulse on June 12.

In the calls, Mateen described himself an an Islamic soldier, and said he was "out here right now" because the U.S. was bombing Syria and Iraq, according to the transcripts released today.

Authorities decided to remove elements of the transcript that referenced terrorist group ISIS, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Sunday.

Lynch, in an interview on "This Week," told ABC's Jonathan Karl that authorities did not want to "revictimize those who went through that horror" or "broadcast" Mateen's pledges of allegiance to terror groups.

The administration's release was also criticized by other Republicans, including Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.

"The terror threat to our national cannot be redacted," he wrote in a statement.

The Justice Department responded to the criticism Monday afternoon by re-issuing the full transcript after the "unnecessary distraction" caused by the first release.