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Posted on 11/20/2009 7:25:34 PM PST by reaganaut1
There may be additional e-mails that could have tipped off law enforcement or military officials to the Fort Hood shooter before he went on his deadly rampage, the chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee said Friday.
The U.S. government intercepted at least 18 e-mails between Hasan and Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American-born cleric. They were passed along to two Joint Terrorism Task Force cells led by the FBI, but a senior defense official said no one at the Defense Department knew about the messages until after the shootings. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss intelligence procedures.
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., said after a briefing from Pentagon and Army officials that his committee will investigate how those and other e-mails involving the alleged shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, were handled and why the U.S. military was not made aware of them before the Nov. 5 shooting.
Levin said his committee is focused on determining whether the Defense Department's representative on the terrorism task force acted appropriately and effectively.
Levin also said he considers Hasan's shooting spree, which killed 13 and wounded more than 30, an act of terrorism.
"There are some who are reluctant to call it terrorism but there is significant evidence that is. I'm not at all uneasy saying it sure looks like that," he said.
He said his committee will also look into whether military members have the ability to report suspicious behavior evinced by colleagues.
FBI and military officials have provided differing versions of why Hasan's critical e-mails to al-Awlaki and others did not reach Army investigators before the shooting.
FBI officials have said a military investigator on the task force saw the e-mails and looked up Hasan's record, but finding nothing particularly worrisome
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“Troubling” ... and the Elephant Man had a little puffiness around the eyes.
Levin is right, and this is not a reflection on this article... but for some reason I just remembered when Geraldo Rivera said it wasnt an act of terrorism, and Hassan may have had a toothache.
Within an hour of the shooting, the crawl on Fox News stated that the FBI had already determined that this was not an act of terrorism.
How can anyone trust this government? It’s lie after lie after lie.
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Is Carl up for re-election in 2010? That’s the only reason I could see him revealing this.
Thanks.
No he isn't up for re-election, but maybe this is far worse than anyone has let on, and he doesn't want to look stupid when it all comes out. And maybe he actually cares. Note his emphasis that this is an "extremely serious" situation.
same article: “Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced the 45-day probe on Thursday, the same day that retired Army Gen. John Keane told Congress that the existing rules will probably need revision to cover activity of “Islamic extremists.”
Well DUHHHHHHHHHH n call me a moron gosh golly gee- I wunduv never done thought of that in a million yars. Hot dang!
Barack Hasan Obama
Sliwa ought to go back to washing cars.
These guys are all such hustlers, pimping their books,their, tv shows, blah blah blah.
what’s the story with Gates?....he seems like he’s a traitor in many ways....
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