„The first is, accuracy. We want to describe exactly what happened. These are individuals who carried out an act of terrorism. And they later tried to justify that act terrorism by invoking the religion of Islam and their own deviant view of it.“

„The second,“ Earnest continued, „is this is an act that was roundly condemned by muslim leaders. I‘m describing to you the reasons why we have not chosen to use that label because it doesn‘t seem to accurately describe what had happened.“