Posted on 11/10/2009 6:16:19 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The Pentagon said it was never notified by U.S. intelligence agencies that they had intercepted emails between the alleged Fort Hood shooter and an extremist imam until after last week's bloody assaults, raising new questions about whether the government could have helped prevent the attack.
A top defense official said federal investigators didn't tell the Pentagon they were looking into months of contacts between Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and Anwar al-Awlaki. The imam knew three of the Sept. 11 hijackers and hailed Maj. Hasan as a "hero" after the shooting last week at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead.
"Based on what we know now, neither the United States Army nor any other organization within the Department of Defense knew of Maj. Hasan's contacts with any Muslim extremists," the official said.
The Pentagon comments fueled a growing dispute among various branches of the government about whether Maj. Hasan should have been more deeply investigated before he allegedly walked into a crowded soldier-readiness center at Fort Hood and opened fire.
A person familiar with the matter said a Pentagon worker on a terrorism task force overseen by the Federal Bureau of Investigation was told about the intercepted emails several months ago. But members of terror task forces aren't allowed to share such information with their agencies, unless they get permission from the FBI, which leads the task forces.
In this case, the Pentagon worker, an employee from the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, helped make the assessment that Maj. Hasan wasn't a threat, and the FBI's "procedures for sharing the information were never used," said the person familiar with the matter.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said President Barack Obama had ordered all agencies involved in national and homeland security to review Maj. Hasan's case to find out if warning signs were missed .......
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Fort Hood suspect was reportedly e-mailing al-Qaeda supporter (but don't call him a terrorist)
They check to make sure the person isn’t an anti-Muslim bigot.
Hoekstra sent a letter Saturday to intelligence chiefs, including Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair, raising the possibility that "serious issues exist with respect to the performance of U.S. intelligence agencies." He asked that all documents and materials connected to the shootings be preserved, saying that the Obama administration "is in possession of critical information related to the attack that they are refusing to release to Congress."
I hope we are not seeing the tip of the ice burg. I have a sick feeling in my stomach that the other shoe has yet to fall. I do know that the press has not been privy to many of the local busts in and around the DC area with regards to terrorist activity, so I do know that somebody is doing their work, but when I see something like what happened in Texas, I get concerned.
I know that 20/20 hindsight is easy to act on, but none-the-less, if I had heard this guys rants how he valued death more than we valued life after exclaiming that he wished to follow a jihad of radical islam... I think I would have picked up the phone and called the FBI or military investigators.
Beyond despicable ... those damn turf wars
haven’t ended YET! Something HAS to be done!
Jamie Gorelick might just as well still be
at DOJ.
Obama administration “is in possession of critical information related to the attack that they are refusing to release to Congress.”
Like WHO is refusing—let’s get the names. WHO is THEY???
Wonder where the other 2 shooters are????????????
National Security trumps 4 aces. Let’s just hope someone in Texas or in the Pentagon has a stronger hand in getting a FOIA release of this information, so that we can prevent more killings here and abroad. I am not in favor of tarring and feathering for the sake of revenge, but of this information can save lives, I say, damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Soldiers at Hood continue to say 3 shooters. How can ONE man kill and wound that many that quickly? I say NO WAY.
Exactly my thought. The Gorelick Wall remains or has been rebuilt.
From that same thread someone commented that this Radical Imman had also been the Muslim Chaplain at George Washington University....
Welcome aboard.
Another grassy knoll?
He can start by telling us who appointed him to his DHS transition team and who promoted him to Major in May.
See #25.
Looks like that old wall Jamie made sure was put in place, is still not demolished. Zero....if you really are not an evil leader trying to tear down this Republic..... Mr Zero.... tear down that wall...
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