Another division in our government that is totally corrupt just like our judicial system. It is disfunctional because of political correctness and probably because of muslim brotherhood in high seats in our government now.
Twana
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April 9: In this photo released by the Bell County Sheriffs Department, U.S. Major Nidal Hasan is shown after being moved from Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio to Bell County Jail in Belton, Texas. (AP)
The FBI was too concerned about political correctness and did not launch an investigation into a man who was later charged with killing 13 people in a 2009 attack at the Fort Hood military installation in Texas, despite significant warning signs that he was an Islamic extremist bent on killing civilians, according to a lawmaker briefed on a new report about the terrorist attack.
In emails to a known terrorist, Army Maj. Nidal Hasan expressed his support for suicide bombings and killing civilians, while the terrorist, Anwar al-Awlaki, encouraged Hasan to stay in touch, Republican Rep. Michael McCaul, told The Associated Press on Wednesday after he was briefed on the findings of a new review of the attack.
The review was done by former FBI Director William Webster and was more than two years in the making. FBI Director Robert Mueller asked that Webster conduct an independent review, and the bureau is expected to release an unclassified version this week.
Much was already known about the series of oversights and missteps the government made leading to the terror attack at the Fort Hood Army post. Soon after the attack, it was revealed that members of two FBI anti-terrorism task forces saw emails between the Army psychiatrist and al-Awlaki beginning in December 2008. Those task forces reviewed the communications and decided they were in keeping with Hasan's research at the time, and as a result, no formal investigation of Hasan was opened. Hasan was writing a research paper about the effects of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But McCaul said Webster's report offers some new details that show the FBI was concerned about investigating an American Muslim in the military, and that is why an investigation was not pursued.
The FBI in San Diego had been investigating al-Awlaki, a former San Diego resident, for his possible connections to the 9/11 hijackers. When agents saw emails between Hasan and al-Awlaki, they asked the FBI's Washington office to talk to Hasan's bosses, according to a government official briefed on the findings who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the Webster report. But the Washington agents thought that interviewing American Muslims who visit extremist websites was a sensitive issue and did not reach out to Hasan's bosses at the Defense Department, the official said.
"It shows you the length of the political correctness stuff going on," McCaul said after he was briefed on the findings of the independent review Wednesday.
Neither the FBI nor Webster responded to requests for comment. But the FBI and Defense Department have said that they've made several policy changes since the 2009 attack to help stave off similar attacks in the future.
One major change was that if al-Awlaki comes up as part of a terror investigation, FBI headquarters would be alerted, Mark Giuliano, assistant director for the FBI's National Security Branch, said last year.
Al-Awlaki, implicated in other terror plots, was killed in a drone strike in Yemen last fall.
Hasan, charged with killing 13 people and wounding 32 others in the November 2009 shooting rampage, is currently being tried in a military court.
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This shows how easily people can be led...If it is not PC then you aren't cool...PC is in part responsible for the death of our nation!
Never let them take your guns or your bible!
I support Michelle Bachmann! Call John McCain and tell him! 202-224-2235
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS....this term and what is has and is doing to our nation. Political correctness has to be eliminated from the USA...totally or we as a nation will no longer survive. Our own government is against it's own people. We the people are no longer in control. Our corrupt government, which is mostly lawyers, has used the constitution, bill of rights and all the other special documents to their advantage. They have ripped and stripped the true meaning of our famous documents to make it sound like we owe everyone on this planet our riches. WE FOUGHT FOR OUR FREEDOM, WE STRUGGLED TO STAY ALIVE BY HELPING EACH OTHER OUT THRU THE HARD TIMES, WHAT RICHES WE HAVE....WE WORKED FOR. Now our corrupt government is giving our nation away to foreigners and others who do not deserve the sweat off our brow. IF OTHER COUNTRIES WANT THEIR FREEDOM, LET THEM FIGHT FOR IT....NOT OUR MEN AND WOMEN. IF THEY WANT MONEY, HOUSES, BUSINESSES, ETC, LET THEM WORK, SAVE AND STRUGGLE AS WE HAVE IN THE PAST. WE DID NOT GET WHAT WE HAVE ON A SILVER PLATTER. Let them fight, struggle and save to deserve the greatness we have achieved. Those elected officials have given the USA to undesirables....let THOSE ELECTED OFFICIALS give up THEIR money, savings, homes and riches...for they didn't slave or work for it. They didn't even go to war, they were the kids who went to college on their parents riches and lived off other peoples sweat and hard work. Now they, our government, wants to strip us of everything we worked so very hard for. NO MORE FREE RIDE FOR THE FOREIGNERS. WE MUST CLOSE OUR DOORS AND NOT ALLOW ANY PEOPLE FROM OTHER NATIONS IN SIDE OUR COUNTRY UNTIL WE HAVE SOLID AND DECENT PAYING JOBS FOR OUR PEOPLE. WE SHOULD TAKE CARE OF OUR CITIZENS FIRST. If you are a foreigner, GO HOME WHERE YOU BELONG. Our Government should be backing our citizens with low interest rates to start new businesses, NOT giving them to foreigners. We must stop importing goods and start making products we need to support our families. THE IMPORTED GOODS ARE GARBAGE, ONLY LAST A SHORT TIME. We use to be known for the BEST STEEL, TIRES, COMPUTERS, ELECTRONICS AND MANY OTHER PRODUCTS. Now we are just known for service and debt problems. If a country fails to make products that we need to live on, that country will fail in surviving.
WE MUST BUILD OUR BUSINESSES THAT MAKE BETTER PRODUCTS. RENEW THEM WITH THE NEWEST, BRIGHTEST AND KNOWLEDGABLE PEOPLE TO ENHANCE AND KEEP OUR ESTABLISHMENTS UP WITH THE FUTURE, NOT STAYING IN THE PAST. GOING FORWARD WITH CARS, INNOVATIONS OF ALL KINDS INCLUDING THE MEDICAL FIELDS AND FUEL SYSTEMS.
Regulations are good, only if they are used by all people from all nations. Stop sharing the products we improve or develop...use those products to get ahead and keep our citizens working for a better nation.
Too many afraid of losing their cushy jobs, as if that's not going to happen anyway! Trade your soul for a few pieces of silver? ...rather be dead!
I think racism has alot to do with him being in office! 99% of all black voters voted for Hussain because he's "black". I have to say that this racism was all part of political correctness and just plain stupid people both white and black!