Senator Patrick Leahy and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller
The FBI continues to make excuses, in the fall out of the Fort Hood terrorist attack, stating it did have suspect, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, under investigation in December 2008, for contacting Al Qaeda, but dropped the probe, deeming the emails he exchanged with them "benign" and for "research" purposes. Are you serious. That excuse does not work for pedophiles when busted and it should not work for terrorists either. How can contact with a terrorist organization, responsible for the deaths of many, be considered "benign."
Furthermore, months after that incident, in May 2009, the FBI was given Nidal Hasan's name once again, as he was accused of making Jihad threats on a public website. Not one, but two incidents, involving a man, who went on to murder 13 soldiers on U.S. soil, while injuring 38 others. Does that sound "benign" to you, Mr. Mueller. The FBI needs to change its practices, as it has gotten way too many innocent people killed. The bereaved families should sue the FBI, as this was all preventable.
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Answers Sought On Fort Hood Suspect's Link To Imam
November 10, 2009 - The FBI knew that alleged Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had communicated with a radical imam nearly a year before the attack but determined the Army psychiatrist was no threat, officials said.
Investigative officials told the Associated Press that FBI Director Robert Mueller has ordered an internal investigation into whether the agency mishandled an "assessment" of Hasan that was conducted last December and determined he did not pose a threat. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to communicate with the media.
On Monday, the FBI and military officials briefed senior lawmakers. Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said it was his understanding that Hasan and a radical Yemeni imam had exchanged 10 to 20 e-mails.
The imam, who reports have identified as Anwar al-Awlaki, was released from a jail in Yemen last year. He writes a blog that denounces U.S. policies as anti-Muslim and once presided at a mosque in Falls Church, Va., that Hasan attended.
The officials said a joint terrorism task force, with military participation, took "a look" at Hasan, but concluded his communications with al-Awlaki were "fairly benign." At the time, Hasan was conducting research on post-traumatic stress at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and the officials say Hasan's communications were judged to be consistent with that research...
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Fort Hood suspect was under FBI probe in 2008
Nov. 9, 2009, 11:40PM - WASHINGTON — The FBI and the Army last year investigated contacts between a Yemen-based militant Islamist prayer leader and the Army psychiatrist accused of last week’s deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, but they dropped the case after concluding that he didn’t pose a terrorist threat, a senior federal law enforcement official said Monday.
The disclosure on Monday that Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan communicated with an imam who had ties to Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers was sure to raise the question of whether U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies had information that, if properly shared and investigated, might have helped to prevent the attack.
Even before that disclosure, lawmakers were calling for inquiries into whether the Army, the FBI and the U.S. intelligence community missed warning signs about Hasan’s increasing radicalization in the months before last Thursday’s killing spree.
“I think the very fact that you’ve got a major in the U.S. Army contacting this guy (a radical imam), or attempting to contact him, would raise some red flags,” said Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee. Hoekstra said his office has been contacted by U.S. officials involved in the case who believe that “the system just broke down.”
The federal law enforcement official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the case is ongoing, said that all the facts are not yet known because the FBI and Army are poring over numerous e-mails sent by Hasan to Awlaki and other Islamist figures...
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