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Fort Hood Hero Says Obama 'Betrayed' Her, Other Victims
ABC ^ | 12 Feb 13 | NED BERKOWITZ and BRIAN ROSS

Posted on 02/12/2013 10:26:56 AM PST by xzins

Three years after the White House arranged a hero's welcome at the State of the Union address for the Fort Hood police sergeant and her partner who stopped the deadly shooting there, Kimberly Munley says President Obama broke the promise he made to her that the victims would be well taken care of.

"Betrayed is a good word," former Sgt. Munley told ABC News in a tearful interview to be broadcast tonight on "World News with Diane Sawyer" and "Nightline."

"Not to the least little bit have the victims been taken care of," she said. "In fact they've been neglected."

There was no immediate comment from the White House about Munley's allegations.

Thirteen people were killed, including a pregnant soldier, and 32 others shot in the November 2009 rampage by the accused shooter, Major Nidal Hasan,

Munley, since laid off from her job with the base's civilian police force, was shot three times as she and her partner, Sgt. Mark Todd, confronted Hasan, who witnesses said had shouted "Allahu Akbar" as he opened fire on soldiers being processed for deployment to Afghanistan.

As Munley lay wounded, Todd fired the five bullets credited with bringing Hasan down.

Despite extensive evidence that Hasan was in communication with al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki prior to the attack, the military has denied the victims a Purple Heart and is treating the incident as "workplace violence" instead of "combat related" or terrorism. Munley and dozens of other victims have now filed a lawsuit against the military alleging the "workplace violence" designation means the Fort Hood victims are receiving lower priority access to medical care as veterans, ....

Some of the victims "had to find civilian doctors to get proper medical treatment" ...said the group's lawyer, Reed Rubinstein.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; anwaralawlaki; banglist; bhosotu; forthood; fthood; guncontrol; hassan; nidalhasan; obama; purpleheart; purplehearts; secondamendment; terrorism; wot
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To: Moonman62

And cutting benefits to veterans


21 posted on 02/12/2013 11:00:59 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: Chad N. Freud

She was in the Obama box at the State of the Union a few short years ago.

Wonder if they have a support group for “The SOTU Box Betrayed”


22 posted on 02/12/2013 11:03:07 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: xzins
Fort Hood Hero Says Obama 'Betrayed' Her...

Yeah, welcome to America, honey, where Obama has betrayed everyone except his Marxist collaborators.

23 posted on 02/12/2013 11:06:43 AM PST by Obadiah (We must commit to remove every Senate Blue-dog Democrat from office in 2014!)
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To: xzins

Thirteen people were killed, including a pregnant soldier, and 32 others shot in the November 2009 rampage by the accused shooter, Major Nidal Hasan,

That makes 14 people killed. One was in-utero, however. This continues to bother me.


24 posted on 02/12/2013 11:11:37 AM PST by ro_dreaming (G.K. Chesterton, “Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It’s been found hard and lef)
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To: xzins

What was she expecting from the President and the First Lady? That’s what politicians do: they use people and exploit tragedies to further their own careers and agendas. Maybe someday the American people will leave their naivete with their morning business in the bathroom, wake up and smell the coffee, and understand that politicians and government are not their friends. I am sick of these disillusioned citizens crying about insensitive politicians as the electorate continues to put the same people under different names and parties into office. As Chrissie Hynde sings: it is time for you to stop all of your sobbing!


25 posted on 02/12/2013 11:13:20 AM PST by AtlasStalled
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To: xzins

Thanks for posting this! I don’t follow the MSM so I wouldn’t have seen it otherwise.’

To me, the way Hassan has been handled with kid gloves, never accused of either terrorism or treason, is beyond belief. But what’s even more beyond belief is the way it disappeared so quickly from public view. The press simply buried it because that’s what Obama wanted.


26 posted on 02/12/2013 11:13:37 AM PST by livius
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To: xzins

27 posted on 02/12/2013 11:24:46 AM PST by pabianice (washington, dc ..)
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To: xzins

“...the military has denied the victims a Purple Heart and is treating the incident as ‘workplace violence’ instead of ‘combat related’ or terrorism.”

I cannot TELL you how glad I am to be OUT of today’s military. Effing PC BS!

These people were killed in cold blood by a TERRORIST waging jihad! A TERRORIST PAID BY THE US TAXPAYER!


28 posted on 02/12/2013 11:29:04 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: xzins

I think I heard on the radio that some special ops guy turned down invite to sit with Michelle tonight, did anyone else hear this?


29 posted on 02/12/2013 11:29:23 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: xzins

As Munley lay wounded, Todd fired the five bullets credited with bringing Hasan down
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Sorry, don’t know how many actually HIT the ‘target’, BUT if he was hit 5 times and survived, easy to see why the ‘rentacops’ may have been replaced..
Easy to figure out that if 1 or more of the ‘troops’ had a means to ‘protect’ themselves the shooter wouldn’t be costing a whole lot of money over whether or not he is allowed to have a straggly beard.


30 posted on 02/12/2013 11:30:20 AM PST by xrmusn (6/98 "It is virtually impossible to clean the pond as long as the pigs are still crapping in it")
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To: Rusty0604

Yes, it was the guy they gave a Medal of Honor to yesterday.


31 posted on 02/12/2013 11:33:20 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: xzins
Army Secretary McHugh says awarding Purple Hearts could adversely affect the trial of Major Hasan.

"To award a Purple Heart, it has to be done by a foreign terrorist element," said McHugh. "So to declare that soldier a foreign terrorist, we are told, I'm not an attorney and I don't run the Justice Department, but we're told would have a profound effect on the ability to conduct the trial."

And there you have it...

32 posted on 02/12/2013 11:43:47 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: xzins

Do you think lady will be in Obama’s box seat during
tonight’s State of the Union?

I hope so and I hope if Obama mentions gun control she starts a chant of “Justice for Ft. Hood” and if the GOP had a spine they would join in.


33 posted on 02/12/2013 11:47:55 AM PST by GraceG
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To: xzins
Every man who ever met her rolled over top of her.

And not in a good way.

34 posted on 02/12/2013 11:50:06 AM PST by ponygirl (Be Breitbart.)
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To: xzins

It was an honest slip of the tongue. He meant to say that Hasan would be well teken care of.


35 posted on 02/12/2013 11:56:14 AM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: Timber Rattler

[ Army Secretary McHugh says awarding Purple Hearts could adversely affect the trial of Major Hasan.

“To award a Purple Heart, it has to be done by a foreign terrorist element,” said McHugh. “So to declare that soldier a foreign terrorist, we are told, I’m not an attorney and I don’t run the Justice Department, but we’re told would have a profound effect on the ability to conduct the trial.”

And there you have it... ]

Why do you think Valerie Jarrett told Obama to do that....


36 posted on 02/12/2013 11:58:42 AM PST by GraceG
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To: xrmusn
Sorry, don’t know how many actually HIT the ‘target’, BUT if he was hit 5 times and survived, easy to see why the ‘rentacops’ may have been replaced..

Based on that blue Toyota, it's still over one-thousand percent better than the LAPD after over fifty shots fired and only injured two women, missing their target completely because he was not even in the area.

37 posted on 02/12/2013 12:04:52 PM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
"Well, looky here. ABC doing a random act of journalism"

Don't say that until it airs in full. I expect some editorial deision maker to find a story on the snail darter that will take its place.

38 posted on 02/12/2013 12:06:27 PM PST by xkaydet65
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To: xzins

The article says she was laid off from her job. Did they revert to strictly military police on base, or did they just cut back on the number of civilian police? Anybody know?


40 posted on 02/12/2013 12:27:25 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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