VIP Treatment: Accused Fort Hood Shooter Gets Daily Helicopter Rides

NBC DFW Channel 5 ^ | 8/4/2013 | By Scott Friedman |

[My Favorite Headache]

NBC 5 Investigates has learned the accused Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan receives extraordinary treatment in jail while victims of the attack argue they have been forgotten and mistreated by the U.S. Army.

While a prisoner awaiting trial, Hasan is ferried by helicopter nearly every day, complete with an additional helicopter escort and security detail, for the 20-mile journey between the Bell County Jail and Fort Hood, courtesy of the United States Army and American taxpayers.

The Army told NBC 5 Investigates the daily helicopter rides are necessary because the jail does not have the proper facilities for Hasan to work on his legal defense and transporting Hasan by car creates additional security concerns. Fort Hood does not have its own jail, so Hasan is being held at the Bell County Jail under a special Army contract.

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[tcrlaf]

FILED UNDER:
“News you won’t be seeing on the National Media in the morning...”

[My Favorite Headache]

By the way, the response from the prosecutor in response to adding the soldier’s suicide to the death toll was “We can not make a comment or respond to this out of the respect for Gen. Hasan’s legal process.”

I forgot to add that in the original post.

[GeronL]

probably just a one-day bit of local media sanity

[Pearls Before Swine]

Who orders these things? Can they occur on autopilot? Is it at the discretion of the judge, the base commander, or directed from much higher up—say the Muslim-in-Chief, or VJ, his advisor?

[My Favorite Headache]

NBC DFW ‏@NBCDFW 1h Accused Fort Hood shooter travels like a VIP while victims of the massacre say the Army has forgotten them #NBC5Investigates tonight at 10 NBC just said they are trying to get it up on the website as soon as possible... NBC DFW ‏@NBCDFW 3m we are working on it - be up soon

[Patriot Babe]

GODDD!!! I hope and pray that these victims families WAKE UP and realize OBAMA will not do anything but to protect HIS PEOPLE. God this makes me angry if true but no one should be shocked if it is. Will just wait unless they change their minds and will not load the story.

[UCANSEE2]

I guess Valerie Jarrett is going to be real busy tonight.

[Jet Jaguar]

Ping

[My Favorite Headache]

NBC showed VIDEO of the transfer happening. 2 choppers taking him back and forth.

[Texas Fossil]

I would be happy to contract “build” the coffin to bury the B_tard in.

Get on with the trial.

[UCANSEE2]

we are working on it - be up soon

Reminds me of Glenn Beck promising world shattering news.

[PGR88]

To bad Jack Ruby is dead....

[Vigilanteman]

The only thing they should be building for Hasan is one of these:

[Deagle]

Too angry to comment!!

[BunnySlippers]

provide a link to the story please.

[Patriot Babe]

This need to go viral folks.

[My Favorite Headache]

Well to be fair the news just went off and it was the top story...the report is probably being put into file format as we speak. They had been tweeting about it and doing promos of it during the game. Trust me...when you watch this video...you are going to see red even more than you probably are right now.

[Deagle]

Oh and I’m sure that you all know that the NSA is reading and cataloging all of the conversations held here... Just a reminder to be vigilant.

[BunnySlippers]

The link does not go to the story you are reporting.

[BunnySlippers]

Can you provide a link to the story?

[maine-iac7]

...

[My Favorite Headache]

Please read through the thread....

NBC is working on posting it right now

https://twitter.com/NBCDFW

[Carry_Okie]

Takes “the privileges of citizenship” or “the rights of the accused” to a whole new level.

[Gene Eric]

>> The father has begged the prosecutor to add his son’s suicide as the 14th death count

The correct count is then 15.

[My Favorite Headache]

NBC DFW ‏@NBCDFW 1h @GregortheMendel watch the story at 10pm - it may surprise you what #NBC5investigates found out View conversation Reply Retweet Favorite More NBC DFW ‏@NBCDFW 2h Accused Fort Hood shooter travels like a VIP while victims of the massacre say the Army has forgotten them #NBC5Investigates tonight at 10

[Excellence]

bttt

[shibumi]

"“We can not make a comment or respond to this out of the respect for Gen. Hasan’s legal process.”"

Please tell me that's a typo?

[rwfromkansas]

Be nice if somebody did us all a favor and offed the guy. Sounds like it’s nearly impossible to get the death penalty in the military no matter what you do, harder than civilian based on an article today.

The military sure isn’t what it once was.

[My Favorite Headache]

Nope. Just waiting for the link to go live to the report on the site...NBC is adding it as we speak according to their twitter feed. When you watch the story you will want to come to TX yourself and take care of the situation.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping, folks.

[My Favorite Headache]

They actually point out in the story that civilian contractors have it way harder than actual military and that their pay would have been stopped immediately.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for posting!

Freking insane.

[batterycommander]

Spiked???

[Jayster]

ping

[Patriot Babe]

Their in the process of getting it up, I mean the news story on their website

[BunnySlippers]

Haha!

[OneWingedShark]

Takes “the privileges of citizenship” or “the rights of the accused” to a whole new level.

The privilege isn't citizenship or, I would argue the accused [remember Zimmerman?]. So then, that leaves us with very little to work on: military? No, his actions, aside from being terrorism, are capital and we have people who weren't involved in obvious murder receive poor treatment [remember Murtha's Marine incident?]. No, what this leaves us with is really only one thing: he is a member of a protected religion.

[batterycommander]

Even Viagra won’t get this story up, it’s spiked by the censor in the White Hut. NBC is run by the White Hut.

[OneWingedShark]

>> "“We can not make a comment or respond to this out of the respect for Gen. Hasan’s legal process.”"
>
> Please tell me that's a typo?

Maybe he's had a few promotions… considering who the CIC is…
[/cynic]

[JennysCool]

Nope. Used to work for NBC. This is a story one of the affiliates did that will get BIG notice and (most important to NBC) the network will have to spend minimal dough to air it. The network then will, of course, take full credit for it. Regardless of how it seems sometimes, networks are less about agenda and more about ratings when an affiliate hands them a story on a silver platter.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

I would be happy to contract “build” the coffin to bury the B_tard in.

I'd think slab-wood and sheetrock screws should be sufficient. Either that or a cardboard water heater box.

[RedHeeler]

Keep pushin’...

[greene66]

Since the depraved faggotization of the military, I’ve come to all but expect such examples of sheer insanity. America has become such a pathetic farce of a country, to let such scenarios occur. A disgrace to all our forefathers.

[JennysCool]

Nope. See #41. Networks drool when an affiliate does a bombshell story they can air pretty much verbatim (in other words, free).

[Kirkwood]

There is a promo on the site that says the story is coming.

[Java4Jay]

ping

[GeronL]

I guess we have to wait then.

This will probably be reported nowhere else, this is now “old news” to the MSM

[pallis]

Hasan is one of Obama’s heroes. Obama is sexually aroused by him.

[GeronL]

One local story, one time, no follow-up is about what we expect from the MSM