Congress To Probe Fort Hood

November 16. 2009

On November 14. 2009, the Judiciary Report stated, the U.S. Congress should probe the Fort Hood shootings, in spite of President Obama's wishes to the contrary.

Today, the U.S. Senate announced it will unobtrusively probe the Fort Hood murders, that were undertaken by Al Qaeda influenced, Muslim extremist, Nidal Malik Hasan.

FBI data on Fort Hood suspect is scrutinized

WASHINGTON — The FBI's effort after 9/11 to improve terrorism investigations will face sharp scrutiny this week as Congress begins probing whether authorities missed or ignored warning signs about the Army major charged with murdering 13 people at Fort Hood in Texas.

Inquiries will focus on FBI-led terrorism task forces that were expanded after 9/11 to unite federal and local authorities in 100 cities. The Joint Terrorism Task Force is "our nation's front line on terrorism," the FBI says on its website.

Yet lawmakers are questioning the task force that investigated Maj. Nidal Hasan in December and did not tell the Pentagon that he had exchanged 10 to 20 e-mails with a radical Muslim cleric.

"A lot of the dots were not connected," Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said Sunday on CBS' Face the Nation. Leahy's committee will question Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday. The Senate homeland security committee opens its probe Thursday...   

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Congress eyes FBI's intel on Hood suspect

Published: Nov. 16, 2009 at 11:18 AM - WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- The FBI's effort to improve terrorism investigation comes under congressional scrutiny this week in the wake of the Fort Hood, Texas, 13-death shooting spree.

Congressional members say the want to know whether authorities either missed or ignored warning signs about Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist charged with 13 counts of murder in the Nov. 5 incident, USA Today reported Monday.

Lawmakers are questioning the FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force that investigated Hasan in December but didn't alert the Pentagon that he exchanged 10-30 e-mails with a radical Muslim cleric...

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