Rep. Hoekstra Getting "No Cooperation" for Fort Hood Probe Is Congress being Stonewalled?
The top ranking Republican in the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) said Tuesday the FBI and CIA have given him "no cooperation at all" in his request for information on what the intelligence agencies knew about Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter.
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at 08:53 on November 11th, 2009
More News On Congress And The Intelligence Community On the Fort Hood Shooting
Information being withheld about Fort Hood shooter -- Examiner
Hoekstra: White House Blocking Investigation of Fort Hood Massacre -- Newsmax
Sparring within House intelligence panel over Fort Hood grows sharper -- Washington Post
Intelligence Officials Deny Sitting on Information About Fort Hood Shooting Suspect -- FOX News
CIA Denies Report of Blocking Hasan Intel -- CBS
at 08:59 on November 11th, 2009
Snuffy,
Why not put that info in your article so folks outside NP can see that?
at 09:30 on November 11th, 2009
Good Idea. I took your suggesting and updated the original post. Thanks.
at 08:53 on November 11th, 2009
They would rather blame the shooting on secondary PTSD than take responsibility that this guy should have been taken off line. If you look at my profile, you will see, that I was trained in Combat Psychiatry. If I presented with these issues I would be on a desk.
at 09:34 on November 11th, 2009
I would like to know how on earth he made it through medical school, and in the field of psychiatry in particular. I am appalled that someone with his political and religious convictions served in the capacity of providing psychologial guidance to our troops either before deployment or after their return. This reminds me of some of the protestors who went to military funerals last year chanting that their deaths were punishment from God, they deserved to die etc etc.
at 09:14 on November 11th, 2009
Common Sense Says Major Hasan Was a TerroristBy Ed Koch
The U.S. Army and President Barack Obama are understandably seeking desperately to prevent U.S. public opinion from reaching any conclusion with respect to the motive of Major Nidal Malik Hasan who killed 12 soldiers and one civilian, and wounded 28 soldiers and one civilian last week at Fort Hood in Texas. In the court of public opinion, subject to change based on hearings to be conducted on the subject by U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman, Major Hasan has been found guilty of engaging in a terrorist act. Many factors have brought the public to that conclusion.
I believe the burden of proof has shifted to those in and out of government who believe the public should withhold its opinion on whether Hasan was a terrorist or simply deranged. I have concluded that he was a terrorist.
I also believe that the U.S. Army should allow Muslims, who consider fighting other Muslims a violation of their religious beliefs, to opt out and be sent to other regions and combat zones. In Word War II, I believe Japanese American soldiers were sent to the European Theater of Operations. It is noteworthy that Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran have no religious problem in killing each other. They do it every day, sadly in large numbers. Muslim women and children are also injured and killed by Muslim suicide bombers entering local markets before blowing up themselves to wreak the most havoc.
It seems to me that political correctness has reached the point where the FBI and the U.S. Army have allowed it to influence their investigations in life and death situations.
at 09:17 on November 11th, 2009
Hasan's TreasonBy Austin Bay
One word aptly describes Ft. Hood mass murderer Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan: traitor.
Traitor is a tough word. It doesn't smudge and squish. "Traitor" draws a hard line, one that sharply divides essential life-determining values and marks a defining personal choice between the profound and the profane.
Hasan's treachery is more like that of America's most infamous traitor, the Revolutionary War's Benedict Arnold. The fortuitous capture of a British spy foiled Arnold's plot to betray the Continental Army position at West Point to the British. Arnold committed treason for money and rank in the British Army, and his treachery put American soldiers and the war effort at risk.
Hasan's treason employed terrorist tactics. Sure, the lawyers can argue Hasan attacked soldiers, with civilians as incidental targets, and the assault occurred on a military post, but the tactics are those used by jihadis in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, Kenya, Indonesia and a score of other nations -- the armed killer entering an open facility and massacring unarmed men and women.
As a retired officer familiar with the military investigation process, I am certain the post-attack investigations now underway will ultimately provide a detailed picture of a 21st century turncoat, one of great use to intelligence and counter-intelligence agencies. Since Hasan survived, we may hear from him about his journey from medical officer to jihadi.
His own explanations -- whether glandular, psychological, theological or political theatrical -- will intrigue many, particularly in the chitchat media already fretting over his identity crisis, but they will not raise the dead, comfort the grieving or satisfy fellow soldiers he betrayed."