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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“We have a military that harbors the enemy for fear of being called names.”
Except they might have been able to do something about it if the intelligence agencies had told the Army Hasan was trying to hook up with Al Qaeda. If they knew and if they didn’t report it. Which they might not have because as of January 20 we’re not fighting the War on Terror anymore.
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Will they confirm his body was shaved and perfumed?
Sometimes profanity is just too weak.
I am simply limp with shock about this.
“How do you know the time frame wasn’t when Bush was president”
Huh? Bush hasn’t been President since January 20 and is hardly in a position to do something about it sitting at home in Dallas. The Obama people have had plenty of time since taking over to “connect the dots” and take appropriate action. And after all that’s what we were promised, that the Obama administration would be wiser and smarter and do everything better than Bush.
6 Months ago who was President?
How much information did he pass along from distressed servicemen and women? He had access to the transition team information. What was his security clearance level?
We were all creeped out by 0bama’s approach to the press conference. I mean it has been all the talk the past few days...how odd, how weird, how quirky. We know they masquerade as bumbling idiots, but if we haven't learned anything in the past 10 months, the administration is not anything it appears to be.
If Hitler had been as clever as Mohammed, he would have proclaimed Nazism to be a new religion.
Then PC-uber-alles dolts would demand that Nazi SS “priests” should be allowed to join the US Army, even as they preached the slaughter of non-Nazis.
And when these Nazi SS “priests” massacred Americans, these PC dolts would worry more about a potential backlash against “moderate Nazis” than the safety of Americans.
PC Kills.
They put a 6 months time period to “watching him”. Obama is connected to Hasan via the transition team bit. Waiting for a picture of Obama and Hasan to surface.
They put a 6 months time period to “watching him”. Obama is connected to Hasan via the transition team bit. Waiting for a picture of Obama and Hasan to surface.
Political correctness is the adult version of peer pressure, with the teeth of the law backing it up. It is also responsible for the death of common sense.
Apparently Hasan was influenced by the teachings of this Imam Awlaki at the Falls Church Mosque. The guy preached hatred against Americans and Christians’ .
It’s a good thing that Barry O wasn’t influenced by the anti-American and racist teachings and rants of Reverend Wright, who he worshipped with for over 20 years. Just think what that would lead to if you put a lunatic in the White House with access to the largest amount of Nuclear armaments on earth. OK…. Stop thinking about that.
You owe it to the victims of the Ft. Hood terrorist attack!!
Time to allow common sense to replace political correctness!
Some context: this apparently all took place at a time when the CIA is under attack from the Obama administration and Eric Holder. It would not be a surprise if the agency was operating in extreme prudence mode. It looks very much as if someone dropped the (large and dangerous) ball, but it remain to be seen who.
***As long as he had no idea they were watching him to see who he was meeting, where he was going, and so forth, he became an intelligence “asset”.***
Great observation! It would be useful to know for how long he had been *monitored* and when he was *dropped* from the radar. Perhaps Jan, 2009???????
Methinks, just as a rat I smell, that somebody perhaps knows him from the D.C. area, and either the two mosques in Maryland and Virginia, or through the HSPI think-tank at George Washington University which also no doubt had Islamist in policy positions involved. I also do not trust the current US Government/Administration at senior levels, nor high officialdom in the Pentagon, to let much of this out if it does show up, therefore the burden is on many of us to uncover what we can from open sources and post here to FR and elsewhere.
There is BS spin I smell, and I think Lieberman and his staff also have been getting stuff backchanneled to them by whistleblowers who know this Hasan's true story, but are afraid of their government or military positions due to political correctness the had to go along with. Just my take.
This is going to get a lot more interesting, as it shifts way from the PTSD and Discriminated Minority cop-out the official MSM is feeding us and thinking we are foolish enough to buy.
American military personnel are dead, or wounded within the borders of our Nation.
Our Federal Government is one BIG screwup after another, and the Federal Government demands to screwup even more.
Take away the Leftist’s unconstitutional accumulation of power within the Federal Government. Return the Federal Government to the extent of authority outlined by the Constitution, and throw everything else at the States to dispose of at their will.
A smaller Fed should be a more efficient Fed, and the military personnel the Fed is responsible for should not die due incompetence of Political orgy.
I was talking with a friend of mine who is fairly high rank in the Army. He said that getting rid of an officer is actually quite difficult and there must be serious evidence.
I think the evidence was being built but was still circumstantial in this guy’s case
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