Fort Hood Massacre Could Have Been Prevented

[The Rev]

Lieberman: Fort Hood Massacre Could Have Been Prevented; Government Officials Guilty of ‘Negligence’
Thursday, February 03, 2011
By Edwin Mora
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. (AP Photo/The Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress)


(CNSNews.com) - Senate Homeland Security Chairman Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) said on Thursday that his committee's review of the Fort Hood massacre, which left 13 dead and 32 wounded, shows the killings could have been prevented if the Defense Department and FBI had acted in an appropriate and timely manner. Instead, government officials were guilty of "negligence," he said.
“Throughout our investigation the victims of this attack and their families have weighed heavily in our minds because our report’s painful conclusion is that the Ft. Hood massacre could have and should have been prevented,” Lieberman said as he and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), the ranking member of the committee, unveiled a report on the Nov. 5, 2009 Ft. Hood killings.
“We have reached that conclusion,” said Lieberman, “because our investigation found that employees of the Department of Defense and the FBI had compelling evidence of Nidal Hasan’s growing embrace of violent Islamist extremism in the years before the attack should have caused them to discharge him from the U.S. military and make him the subject of an aggressive counter-terrorism investigation.”

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/...cre-could-have

[The Rev]

It’s easy to say that now, but if the FBI would have intervened before this it would have backfired on them. First of all Muslims would have been outraged and would be screaming about profiling.
It’s so easy to put the blame on someone else than to admit the freaking extremist are a threat to our security, and must be exposed at all cost!

[falcon]

The Hassan case is a prime example of a failure in the chain of command. Several senior Army officers knew that Hassan was a Muslim extremist but they did nothing about it. Hassan was allowed to get away with his sorry crap because he is a "minority". Hassan was coddled, promoted and transferred until he finally murdered a lot of good soldiers.

The FBI was well aware that Hassan was corresponding with Muslim extremists but they did nothing about it either. The FBI has a long history of blunders: Look at what happened to Richard Jewell.

Hassan should be summarily executed and buried in a casket full of pig skins. i'll volunteer to furnish the pig skins.

[The Rev]

Originally Posted by falcon

Hassan should be summarily executed and buried in a casket full of pig skins. i'll volunteer to furnish the pig skins.

I'm sure there will not be a shortage of those that are willing to put him in that casket.

We need to stop worrying about hurting someones feelings.

[Fieldmouse]

Originally Posted by falcon

The Hassan case is a prime example of a failure in the chain of command. Several senior Army officers knew that Hassan was a Muslim extremist but they did nothing about it. Hassan was allowed to get away with his sorry crap because he is a "minority". Hassan was coddled, promoted and transferred until he finally murdered a lot of good soldiers.

The FBI was well aware that Hassan was corresponding with Muslim extremists but they did nothing about it either. The FBI has a long history of blunders: Look at what happened to Richard Jewell.

Hassan should be summarily executed and buried in a casket full of pig skins. i'll volunteer to furnish the pig skins.

Shouldn't you complain his rights were being violated? How did they know he was communicating with terrorist unless under the patriot act they were monitoring the email traffic from a well known terrorist al wiki in yeman when they stumbled upon this guy? After all, don't you believe they should have had a search warrant before reading his personal emails?

[Knightia]

Have a ammo can full of bandoliered m1 garand ammo & a few blocks of lard id like to donate for the execution & burial.

[falcon]

After all, don't you believe they should have had a search warrant before reading his personal emails?

Frankly i could give a big rats @as less that they were reading the e-mails of a known terrorist, one Anwar al Awalaki.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/us/10inquire.html

[Fieldmouse]

Originally Posted by falcon

Frankly i could give a big rats @as less that they were reading the e-mails of a known terrorist, one Anwar al Awalaki.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/us/10inquire.html

Well if you have never spoken out against the Patriot Act than I'm sorry for my posting. I don't make many mistakes.

[Alsatian]

Some comments:

Because (1) this guy was an active member of the military, (2) committed his crimes on a military base, and (3) his victims were active members of the military . . . I hope that he will be tried and punished under military justice.

How often is it that this is the case -- some guy who freaks out and shoots a bunch of people was known in advance to be off the deep end. The reaction of politicians is ALWAYS to ban guns from everyone's use instead of just addressing the problem at hand -- the people who are known to be off the deep end. Let's have some legislation and some support for identifying and circumscribing these folks who are off the deep end. Sure, how you define this, how you draft legislation that doesn't end up curbing all of our rights -- to privacy, to act as we want to -- is difficult. But err on the side of circumscribing the rights of crazies more often less often on circumscribing the rights of law abiding gun owners.

[Fieldmouse]

Alsatian, we already did that called the Patriot Act to counter our enemy before they strike. It worked. We knew this guy was talking with our enemy. The failure was the FBI and the military to act on intel. I lay the fault for this right in the White House. Obama and company wants to treat terrorism as a criminal act. When you do that, you must always be on defense and wait for the act to be committed.