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Saturday, 21 November 2009

There are none so blind: So far the feds have found 18--18!--problematic missives written by Major Dr. Hasan prior to his virgin-seeking expedition. From AP:
WASHINGTON — There may be additional e-mails that could have tipped off law enforcement or military officials to the Fort Hood shooter before he went on his deadly rampage, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Friday.
The U.S. government intercepted at least 18 e-mails between Hasan and Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American-born cleric. They were passed along to two Joint Terrorism Task Force cells led by the FBI, but a senior defense official said no one at the Defense Department knew about the messages until after the shootings. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss intelligence procedures.
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., said after a briefing from Pentagon and Army officials that his committee will investigate how those and other e-mails involving the alleged shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, were handled and why the U.S. military was not made aware of them before the Nov. 5 shooting.
Levin said his committee is focused on determining whether the Defense Department's representative on the terrorism task force acted appropriately and effectively.
Levin also said he considers Hasan's shooting spree, which killed 13 and wounded more than 30, an act of terrorism.
"There are some who are reluctant to call it terrorism but there is significant evidence that is. I'm not at all uneasy saying it sure looks like that," he said.
He said his committee will also look into whether military members have the ability to report suspicious behavior evinced by colleagues.
FBI and military officials have provided differing versions of why Hasan's critical e-mails to al-Awlaki and others did not reach Army investigators before the shooting.
FBI officials have said a military investigator on the task force saw the e-mails and looked up Hasan's record, but finding nothing particularly worrisome, the investigator neither sought nor got permission to pass the e-mails on to other military officials…
“Nothing particularly worrisome”--that’s PC weasel-speak for “Better not mess with this guy because we don’t want to be accused of ‘profiling’”--which makes the FBI complicit in the deaths.

Posted by: scaramouche at 11:15 | link | comments (1)


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#1  21 November 2009 - 16:04
 
Not surprising - since news analysis shows that, not only is the Army ignoring its medical staff, there is now so much political correctness involved in arresting insurgents in Iraq that their own soldiers are on trial for murder.

The Canal murders evidence the fact that the US soldiers must now have documented, photo evidence(3 types)  of the actions of the insurgent before arrest - or they are sent back to the streets to shoot at them again!)
Of over 80,000 arrested in Iraq - over 70,000 were let go - because there wasn't enough proof that they were attacking soldiers -   duh - wonder why there are so many dead American soldiers? They can't even lock up the bad guys!
Here's a clue  - wonder why they don't notice when a whacked-out psycho psychiatrist is really on a jihad mission?

Too busy collecting evidentce for their bosses, maybe

Ahh - Political correctnesss - the new epitaph for tombstones in military cemeteries
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