Ft. Hood Shooting Intelligence Review Ordered By Obama

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has ordered a review of all intelligence related to Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, and whether the information was properly shared and acted upon within government agencies.

The review will be overseen by John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism. The first results are due to the White House by Nov. 30.

Obama also ordered the preservation of the intelligence. Members of Congress, particularly Michigan Rep. Peter Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, have called for a full examination of what agencies knew about Hasan's contacts with a radical imam and others of concern to the U.S., and what they did with the information.

The FBI confirmed this week that the U.S. government knew about 10 to 20 e-mails between Hasan and a radical imam beginning in December 2008.

Comments

[Sita001]

Excuses heard to day about his promotion etc due to fears of religious or ethnic persecution and that there are so few psychologists available to help the soldiers led to this eventual outcome.
WOW
If he'd only been gay he'd have been discharged in a NY minute.

Go figure.

[Tulka2]

As a medical person, i want to first have a scan of Hasan's brain. Charles Whitman of Texas U. Book Tower fame had a tumor as big as an egg on his brain at the autopsy? Isn't anyone else interested in first knowing if he was physically competent?

[whovoted4him]

The article uses the terms "obama" and "intelligence" in the title .. you don't see that very often

[Roguewolf]

The first act of terrorism on American soil on Obama's watch.

[Tulka2]

Creepy you to see you so satisfied.