"Painful Conclusion": Senators Say FBI & DOD Could Have Prevented Ft. Hood Shooting

ABC News ^ | February 03, 2011 | Matthew Jaffe

[stevie_d_64]

A new Senate report on the 2009 Fort Hood shooting blames the FBI and Department of Defense for failing to recognize or act on alleged shooter Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s extremist views.

The report, released today by Senate Homeland Security Committee chairman Joe Lieberman and ranking Republican Susan Collins, says the FBI and DOD could have prevented the shooting if they had identified Hasan’s radical Islamist views and disciplined or discharged him before the attack occurred.

“Our report’s painful conclusion is that the Fort Hood massacre could have and should have been prevented,” Lieberman said at a press conference today.

“The fact is that both the FBI and the Army were aware of Major Hasan,” Collins said. “This is not a case where a lone wolf was unknown to the FBI, unknown to the military officials, until he struck – and that is the tragedy of this case.”

[E. Pluribus Unum]

We can't say it was Obama's fault because that would be racist, so it must be George W. Bush's fault... again.

[Christian Engineer Mass]

As usual, if it’s real info, the source is the BLOGS section. As though to hide it.

I’m surprised the Senate came to the conclusion we all did on DAY 1.

[choctaw man]

“...alleged shooter Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan...”

Let’s see now, who else could it have been???

[facedown]

No spit, Sherlock.

[stevie_d_64]

...bullbutter...

But now that the media blames the folks that supposedly “knew” about Hassan, and that apparently they are culpable in those murders committed by Hassan...

Then charges need to be filed now...Might as well get it over with...

But then again, if any of us espouse an “extremist” view anywhere in public, we need to be charged with a crime in accordance with the new Hassan “Misunderstood Muslim” Protection Act of 2011...

Might as well make it a crime, the way the media is portraying it...

You know, they are smarter than any of us.../sa.../sar...Oh, fugetaboutit!!!

[texteacher]

...and how much money and time was spent to discover the obvious!

[Presbyterian Reporter]

Obama told us to not to rush to judgment when his fellow Muslim Hasan murdered 13 soldiers.

Fast forward to this week and Obama is rushing to judgment to get rid of Mubarek so his fellow Muslim Brotherhood can fill the vacuum.

Every conservative and patriotic American should make an oath to keep telling their fellow Americans that Obama is bad for America and needs to be defeated. (Preferably in the 2012 Democrat Primary)

[diverteach]

“Painful conclusion.....Political correctness kills”

[USNBandit]

I think the rest of the country came to the same conclusion a couple days after the murders, when his former classmates came forward saying the guy was a nut, and they had reported such to superiors.

[bigredkitty1]

My only comment to each and every senator is this: No sh*t, Sherlock!

[The Comedian]

Hassan was an isolated incident which in no way casts a shadow across the thousands of other peaceful Nazis now serving as sleeper agents in the US Military without having fired a single shot at fellow soldiers. Yet.

Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.

[Diogenesis]

The DOD only had thousands of opportunities.

The fact is: THEY DO NOT CARE.

CONGRESS DOES NOT CARE.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana

"Army Major (Hasan) Played Role in Presidential (Obama) Transition"

John Brennan:"Jihad is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam"

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On terrorists, Justice recused"
AG Eric Holder's clients (the REAL reason for the transfer - to free them):
o Saad Al Qahtani
o Mohammed Zahrani
o Achraf Salim ("Sultan") Abdessalam
o Abdul Rahman Abdul Abu Ghityh Sulayman
o Musaab Omar Al Madhwani
o Jawad Jabbar Sadkhan (Al Sahlani)
o Majid Khan

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"Attorney General Holder's Advisers Have Conflicts on Detainee Cases"

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"Eric Holder's Law Firm Has a history of representing Terrorists"

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"Corruptocrat AG Eric Holder's conflicted DOJ"

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The Al-Qaeda Bar (Big Law Firms Line Up to Represent Terrorists)
"Some of the nation's wealthiest and most powerful law firms have donated hundreds of
millions of dollars in free legal services to terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay prison.
Their work, bolstered by left-wing activists groups, has helped to free, or force the
transfer, of hundreds of al Qaeda suspects to third countries. Some have gone back to
terrorism and the job of trying to kill Americans.

The work of big American law firms on behalf of al Qaeda is drawing new attention since
Attorney General Eric Holder decided this month that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who
orchestrated the murder of over 3,000 9-11, is coming to New York City for trial. Holder
was a partner at Covington & Burling, which in 2005 gave one its attorneys an award for
aiding 17 Yemeni suspects at Guantanamo."

A list of 10 of the largest American legal firms representing Guantanamo terror detainees:
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw
Blank Rome
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
Shearman & Sterling
Allen & Overy
Convington & Burling
Dorsey & Whitney
Holland & Hart
Hunton & Williams
Paul, Weiss"

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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children
and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
President Ronald Reagan

[basil]

My only comment is that at the very least, the Military Police on any US Base should be armed—again, one armed person could have taken this guy out before he did as much damage as he did.

[Argus]

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IS SUICIDE.

[Electric Graffiti]

“...alleged shooter Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan...”
"Let’s see now, who else could it have been???"

The real sick part about all this is Hasan still has his rank and is recieving his pay......While LTC Lakin is in Leavenworth stripped of rank, pay, etc.

[FlingWingFlyer]

And a Dipstik could have prevented the ‘RATS’ “Miracle in Tuscon” if he had been doing his job instead of being out their shilling for DemocRATS and suing the State of Arizona for his illegal alien pals.

[Coldwater Creek]

How did the steak turn out?

[ronnie raygun]

Blame game.. who would have guessed it from these cretans in control. They knew they had a problem and they ignored it because it wasnt politicalLy correct, so our fine men in women were purposley put in harms way, un protected when they should have felt secure in a secure place and put infront of a firing squad all for POLITICAL CORRECTNESS. SCUMBAGS!

[livius]

Why is this on blogs? It should be News or Breaking News. This is important.