What did the Kenyan know and when did he know it?
Posted on 11/09/2009 4:15:57 AM PST by Saije
U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News.
It is not known whether the intelligence agencies informed the Army that one of its officers was seeking to connect with suspected al Qaeda figures, the officials said.
One senior lawmaker said the CIA had, so far, refused to brief the intelligence committees on what, if any, knowledge they had about Hasan's efforts.
CIA director Leon Panetta and the Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, have been asked by Congress "to preserve" all documents and intelligence files that relate to Hasan, according to the lawmaker.
On Sunday, Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) called for an investigation into whether the Army missed signs as to whether Hasan was an Islamic extremist.
"If Hasan was showing signs, saying to people that he had become an Islamist extremist, the U.S. Army has to have a zero tolerance," Lieberman told Fox News Sunday.
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Yeah, no terrorism here. You need to involve architecture for that, a building, or at least a plane. This guy could have shot 3000 people and they’d still be calling him a whackjob, as long as he didn’t leave a cloud.
What a fiasco! We have to keep someone in the military who is out to kill us because if we kick him out, we may be sued for discrimination. The blood of those killed is on the ones who made that decision as much as on the shooter. You can’t expect to invite a wolf into your house, keep it there, and not get hurt.
This guy was a member of the same mosque as two of the 9/11 hijackers.
No doubt the FBI/CIA/HD/VA state police/DEA/ and a vast host of other federal and state investigators will be cruising through this very neighborhood over the next few weeks doing "one more interview" ~ will be interesting.
“What a fiasco!”
It looks like the Obama people are getting ready to hang each other out to dry on this one.
Not nearly strong enough... how about "a poor Army doctor who snapped under the stress of 8 years of an endless war against all Muslims started by the Constitution-shredding Bush and the tea bagger neocons? Remember, it's not a lie if you believe it. ;-)
BTTT.
My favorite ‘diagnosis’ is pre-post traumatic stress disorder.
Obviously someone screwed up, he found out, his handlers then sent him out to kill people.
But, hey, lets not jump to conclusions. After all, who are we to judge until all the facts are in? Of course, when are all the facts ever “in”? Honestly, the sh!t needs to hit the fan here, big time. We are starting to forget what we learned from 9/11.
Don’t jump to any conclusions. Though.
“If Hasan was showing signs, saying to people that he had become an Islamist extremist, the U.S. Army has to have a zero tolerance,” Lieberman told Fox News Sunday.
There has to be zero tolerance for politically correct careerists in the U.S. Military. This is akin to sending your troops into a combat zone without proper intelligence as to the probable location of enemy combatants. Heads need to roll in Fort Hood and perhaps much further up the chain of command.
Look at the angle these articles are taking. 1. Hasan is the victim. Or, 2. If he isn’t the victim, he still shouldn’t be blamed for his terrorist acts—the military should be blamed.
So the CIA knew but didn’t brief the Army? Unbelievable. Well they can’t blame it on Bush’s CIA, not with Leon Panetta running the show, it’s now Obama’s CIA.
Howmany of us have worked wih people who were hired under affirmative action and watched as these people could not perform their jobs and knew it was not only hard to get rid of them ,but dangerous to our own jobs to try/
There is litle difference here. He was left alone because it endengered their own position to try to get rid of him.This is the problem with politically correctness. The fear of retaliation when trying fire or remove one of the chosen class.
This makes Hasan’s involvement in that Obama transition thing even more interesting. And raises another question: If Hasan was an Islamist terrorist-in-waiting, was the Fort Hood shooting his goal all along, or had he been doing something else and chose to end with this atrocity for another reason?
I have a theory about the Muslim jihadists we've been fighting for the past 30 years....I think they do it because they have no luck with women.
Take a look at their founder Qutb.
He was a complete loser with the female persuasion. He formed his fanatical Mohammedism while a student in the U.S. in the late 1940's. If he had looked like Omar Sharif, he'd have had better luck with the babes, and maybe we wouldn't have fanatical Islam at our throats.
The Muslims we have trouble with are NOT the Camel-riding, tent-sleeping, goat-herding peasants. Those Muslims just want to get through the day and maybe try to follow the Five Pillars of Islam.
No, the Muzzies that cause the most trouble are the ones who've been thoroughly westernized, have seen our movies, listened to our music, ate our food, and maybe even know our slang. These Muslims are unhappy because they have a God-shaped hole in their hearts, and so they try to fill it with what they think is "Spirituality", by following Marduk the Moon God, and the teachings of their pedophile prophet. Most of these Muslims aren't very good looking, strike out with women, and probably smell. Because of their lack of God, and their inability to find a decent-looking woman, most turn to Radical Islam to get back at the rest of us who have girlfriends/wives.
It's understandable how lust-filled they get when they see a woman who's not in a burlap burkha. It triggers unfulfilled desires that would drive a man into a homicidal rage. The only solution is to convert Muslims to Christianity, so they can get a healthy view of women and maybe they can find one to settle down with and live their lives in peace.
This is getting out of hand. Talk about the elephant in the living room. We have a military that harbors the enemy for fear of being called names.
The attitude shown is endangering the security of the country. Off the record interviews have also shown there WERE other officers who saw the signs- but didn’t report them for fear of being called on the carpet.
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