VIP Treatment: Accused Fort Hood Shooter Gets Daily Helicopter Rides

NBC DFW Channel 5 ^ | 8/4/2013 | By Scott Friedman |

[My Favorite Headache]

NBC 5 Investigates has learned the accused Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan receives extraordinary treatment in jail while victims of the attack argue they have been forgotten and mistreated by the U.S. Army.

While a prisoner awaiting trial, Hasan is ferried by helicopter nearly every day, complete with an additional helicopter escort and security detail, for the 20-mile journey between the Bell County Jail and Fort Hood, courtesy of the United States Army and American taxpayers.

The Army told NBC 5 Investigates the daily helicopter rides are necessary because the jail does not have the proper facilities for Hasan to work on his legal defense and transporting Hasan by car creates additional security concerns. Fort Hood does not have its own jail, so Hasan is being held at the Bell County Jail under a special Army contract.

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[BunnySlippers]

Can you provide a link to the story?

[maine-iac7]

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[My Favorite Headache]

Please read through the thread....

NBC is working on posting it right now

https://twitter.com/NBCDFW

[Carry_Okie]

Takes “the privileges of citizenship” or “the rights of the accused” to a whole new level.

[Gene Eric]

>> The father has begged the prosecutor to add his son’s suicide as the 14th death count

The correct count is then 15.

[My Favorite Headache]

NBC DFW ‏@NBCDFW 1h @GregortheMendel watch the story at 10pm - it may surprise you what #NBC5investigates found out View conversation Reply Retweet Favorite More NBC DFW ‏@NBCDFW 2h Accused Fort Hood shooter travels like a VIP while victims of the massacre say the Army has forgotten them #NBC5Investigates tonight at 10

[Excellence]

bttt

[shibumi]

"“We can not make a comment or respond to this out of the respect for Gen. Hasan’s legal process.”"

Please tell me that's a typo?

[rwfromkansas]

Be nice if somebody did us all a favor and offed the guy. Sounds like it’s nearly impossible to get the death penalty in the military no matter what you do, harder than civilian based on an article today.

The military sure isn’t what it once was.

[My Favorite Headache]

Nope. Just waiting for the link to go live to the report on the site...NBC is adding it as we speak according to their twitter feed. When you watch the story you will want to come to TX yourself and take care of the situation.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping, folks.

[My Favorite Headache]

They actually point out in the story that civilian contractors have it way harder than actual military and that their pay would have been stopped immediately.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for posting!

Freking insane.

[batterycommander]

Spiked???

[Jayster]

ping

[Patriot Babe]

Their in the process of getting it up, I mean the news story on their website

[BunnySlippers]

Haha!

[OneWingedShark]

Takes “the privileges of citizenship” or “the rights of the accused” to a whole new level.

The privilege isn't citizenship or, I would argue the accused [remember Zimmerman?]. So then, that leaves us with very little to work on: military? No, his actions, aside from being terrorism, are capital and we have people who weren't involved in obvious murder receive poor treatment [remember Murtha's Marine incident?]. No, what this leaves us with is really only one thing: he is a member of a protected religion.

[batterycommander]

Even Viagra won’t get this story up, it’s spiked by the censor in the White Hut. NBC is run by the White Hut.

[OneWingedShark]

>> "“We can not make a comment or respond to this out of the respect for Gen. Hasan’s legal process.”"
>
> Please tell me that's a typo?

Maybe he's had a few promotions… considering who the CIC is…
[/cynic]