Posted on 11/11/2009 12:29:35 PM PST by yoe
The mystery over whether the military knew Fort Hood shooting suspect Nidal Hasan was communicating with a radical Muslim imam lapsed into finger-pointing ahead of congressional investigations looking into the Army psychiatrist's contacts with any extremists.
Even as President Barack Obama remembered those killed at the Texas Army post and condemned what he described as "the twisted logic that led to this tragedy," federal agencies reacted to conflicting claims about whether a Defense Department terrorism investigator looked into Hasan's contacts months ago with Anwar al-Awlaki. Awlaki, an imam who was released from a Yemeni jail last year, has used his personal Web site to encourage Muslims across the world to kill U.S. troops in Iraq. A military official Tuesday denied knowing Hasan had such contacts.
Two government officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case on the record, said the Washington-based joint terrorism task force overseen by the FBI was notified of communications between Hasan and the imam overseas, and the information was turned over to a Defense Criminal Investigative Service employee assigned to the task force. The communications were gathered by investigators beginning in December 2008 and continuing into early this year.
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Political Correctness is the weapon....count the dead PC crowd, Anti-War nuts, anti-Americans, most professors, many judges, many, many misinformed young Americans.....count the dead as it is more than half your fault.
As an absolute minimum, the Director of the FBI, The Attorney General, The Army Chief of Staff, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff should be called before Congress to explain their apparent incompetence and why absolutely no action was taken. Their incompetence had deadly consequences.
It’s the Moonbat-Muslim axis of evil...
It is obvious the US government is responsible for what happened.
“Two government officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case on the record,”
went ahead and violated any and all authority and spoke on record. (as long as their name was concealed)
Either that, or it is just unsubstantiated rumor.
Which Obama Czar knew and when did he know it?
Can we seriously think knowing he had an AQ pen pal would change this willful blindness?
Bttt
I suspect that some of Hassan’s peers were concerned about his radicalism but were afraid of being considered “anti-Muslim” if they reported it.
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