In case the nitwits at the Pentagon missed it...
How much more obvious was it that they were dealing with a terrorist?
Posted on 02/03/2011 1:16:44 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal authorities ignored warnings that could have prevented a 2009 massacre at an Army base, two U.S. senators said in a report on Thursday that outlined intelligence failures similar to those in the September 11, 2001, attacks.
Major Nidal Malik Hasan -- an Army psychiatrist who had been dubbed by two colleagues as "a ticking time bomb" -- was charged with murder in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas that killed 13 and wounded 32.
Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, and Susan Collins, the panel's top Republican, said in the probe that authorities had information indicating that Hasan, a Muslim born in the United States to immigrant parents, was a threat before the November 5, 2009, shootings.
"Although neither DoD (the Department of Defense) nor the FBI had specific information concerning the time, place or nature of the attack, they collectively had sufficient information to have detected Hasan's radicalization to violent Islamist extremism but failed both to understand and to act on it," they wrote.
The Army has received an assessment from experts on Hasan's mental health and is considering whether he should face court martial and potentially the death penalty.
Intelligence agencies learned that Hasan had contacts with an Islamist sympathetic to al Qaeda and relayed the information to law enforcement, but no action was taken, the report noted.
The report identified the Islamist only as "Suspected Terrorist" and several portions of the report were redacted.
U.S. officials have said Hasan had exchanged e-mails with Anwar al-Awlaki, an al Qaeda figure based in Yemen.
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NOT MISSED! - IGNORED IN THE NAME OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS!
Add to this Bradley Manning’s little temper tantrum and look what we’ve got.
Add to this Bradley Manning’s little temper tantrum and look what we’ve got.
No surprises here. If you read all the information unearthed here at FR in the immediate wake of the event, you came to the same conclusion.
Bingo!
Religious affiliation: ISLAM
Such BS.
He’s documented as radical Islamization, that’s a far cry from having a date of planes flying into buildings.
Another in a series of politically correct deaths.
Tucson was also an example of “death by PC”.
PC is not only utterly disgusting but it is deadly as well. WAKE UP WORLD!
But what inflamed me more was the nerve of Obama saying "let's not come to any conclusions".
The President is going to grant him a pardon...I just know it.
Pentagon PC enabled the killing of 13 un armed American soldiers. Thta’s the yin and the yang of the matter.
Remember that one ~ the top brass got sacked because the Post reporters discovered, among other things, that there was some unpainted bad plaster in an on-base hotel room.
The "posties" presumably interviewed Hassan ~ didn't notice a thing ~ .................
If I were the Speaker of the House I'd be having this investigated from the ground at Walter Reed up to the highest levels!
They did the same thing with the terrorist attacks of 9-11; the ignored them.
They did the same thing with the terrorist attacks of 9-11; they ignored them.
That was my first thought as well. Bradley Manning.
Same thing that is going on in Egypt. Ignoring how deadly Muslim Brotherhood is.
At least Dr Joe Medicine Crow received his ‘shout out’ from the president.
How much more obvious was it that they were dealing with a terrorist?
Oh wonderful. I suppose we can trust Susan Collins to stand up and declare Islam the thuggish religion of criminals and murderers it is. Yeah. Sure. You can probably bet the words Muslim, Islam and terrorism will not pass her lips.
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