ABC: FBI knew Hasan tried to contact Al-Qaeda
Would it normally be considered a national-security problem if a high-ranking military officer had tried to contact an enemy of the United States during wartime? ABC News reports that the FBI knew that Major Nidal Hasan had attempted to contact al-Qaeda and its associates months before Hasan went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, killing 13 people. Did the FBI tell the Army about it? That gets rather murky
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Feds dropped inquiry into Hasan’s contacts with jihadis because … he didn’t seem violent
Intelligence agencies intercepted communications last year and earlier this year between Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who is accused of shooting to death 13 people at Fort Hood, Tex., and a radical cleric in Yemen known for his incendiary anti-American teachings. But federal authorities dropped an inquiry into the matter after deciding the messages warranted no further action, government officials said on Monday.
Maj. Hasan’s exchanges with Anwar al-Awlaki, once a spiritual leader at a mosque in suburban Virginia where Maj. Hasan worshipped, indicate that the troubled military psychiatrist came to the attention of the authorities long before long before last Thursday’s shooting rampage at Fort Hood, but left him in his post. It is not clear what was said in the exchanges, believed to be e-mail messages, and whether they would have offered a hint at the major’s outspoken views or his declining emotional state…
But federal officials briefed on the case said their decision to break off the investigation was reasonable based on the information about Maj. Hasan that was compiled at the time, which they said gave no indication he was likely to engage in violence.
The officials said the communications do not alter the prevailing theory that Maj. Hasan acted by himself, lashing out as a result of combination of factors, including his outspoken opposition to American policy in Iraq and Afghanistan and his deepening religious fervor as a Muslim.
David Horowitz diagnoses Gen. Casey’s p.c. debilitation.
You have to view this segment of the Meet the Press interview with Army chief of staff General George Casey to believe it — to believe that our army could be led by someone as incompetent in national security matters as this man showed he was, first by claiming that the army hadn’t “missed anything” in regard to the in-your-face warning signs exhibited by Major Hasan that he was a fanatical Muslim jihadist and an imminent threat to massacre our troops, by admitting that the army’s diversity policies had trumped its security policies, and worst of all by making this statement: ‘As horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse.’”
Matthews on Ft. Hood Suspect Warning Signal: ‘That’s Not a Crime to Call al Qaeda, Is It?’
As with the Clinton administration who chose to look the other way, so is NObama. I really feel for the CIA folks. Liberals take a lesson – if you choose to prosecute the protectors instead of the real villians people will die. Muslims are out to kill americans and jews with the goals of ruling the world. It’s a simple philosophy – why the hell don’t libbies get it.
13 people killed at Ft Hood, all in the name of political correctness.
Nothing was missed the Bitchs in the FBI Didn’t want to act against a Muslim terrorists, Because if a guy inside the FBI Is white and acted against a Muslim that guy would be raped in a jail cell For not using PC Acts and if the guy was black/brown or yellow and the case fall apart some white guy would still get raped in a jail cell.
We live in a lawless nation with only PC Laws But understand one fact that lawless nation of monkeys will act against you real soon for writing or talking out against the system of lawlessness and mass murder.
and when that time comes for YOU Act like a real American and take one with you but get your family and cats and dogs out of the way cops live to murder little things like kids and cats and dogs.