Senior Administration Official – Fort Hood Shootings Were “An Act of Terrorism”

who was the senior official? why even report it if the source isn’t even willing to give their name? this is a joke of a report — you fail at journalism.

gosh, what was the tip off?

JAke, I’m waiting for you to be reassigned. You’re probably pissing off too many people in hign places.

Let’s don’t jump to conclusions.

Too bad Obama will never have to answer questions about it–or anything it looks like.
He comes out, reads his script, then quickly heads for an exit.

That was about as obvious a finding as fish needing water. But I keep forgetting, liberals would even have an alternative lifestyle for fish.

As most of you know, Nidal Hassan was in the military under the Bush administration for years.
According to the Washington Post, Hasan made a presentation titled “The Koranic World View As It Relates to Muslims” in the U.S. Military during his senior year of residency at Walter Reed. The presentation, which was not well received by some attendees, recommended that the Department of Defense “should allow Muslims Soldiers the option of being released as “Conscientious objectors” to increase troop morale and decrease adverse events.”
Again, this presentation was made in June 2007, not Obama’s watch.
We’ll need to see where mistakes were made regarding Hassan’s stability and reliability, where in the military Hassan’s behavior’s were noted or missed – and if there were shortcomings in how he was assessed.
The question arises – will their be charges of neglect of duty (or otherwise) that arise out of this situation against individuals in the military structure.

So what’s your point?
Posted by: James Danley | Jan 15, 2010 11:28:06 PM
___________________________________
James if you’re having trouble understanding the points made, perhaps read it through a few times.
What’s your point?

Posted by: NewIndependent | Jan 15, 2010 11:55:07 PM
____________________________________
New Independent your argument is empty of the context of what gets posted repeatedly on this blog by the Republicans and the right – who repeately BLAME Obama for the Ft. Hood incident.
Have you somehow missed this? Or is it just convenient for your argument to ignore it?
Is it really too much for you that someone would point out Hasan also served under the Bush administration and apparently behaved oddly at that time as well?
Sounds like you’re a real fair person.
As I said in my post . . . We’ll need to see where mistakes were made regarding Hassan’s stability and reliability, where in the military Hassan’s behavior’s were noted or missed – and if there were shortcomings in how he was assessed.
The question arises – will their be charges of neglect of duty (or otherwise) that arise out of this situation against individuals in the military structure.

James:
the point is the ‘blame’ that is projected onto Obama by the rightwing, you correctly point out that no President would personally know or review information about Hassan, it seems that many on the ‘right’ have a self imposed time limit in which Obama has to say something that satisfies their political needs, …
for the ‘right’ to suggest that Obama doesn’t care about terrorists, or the safety of America
based on how quickly he discussed Hassan is
simply stupid… there are substantive security issues to debate, but it seems that many on the ‘right’ reflexively choose heat and invective over substance.

A muslim terrorist shoots 50 people at Ft Hood where, thanks to Jimmy Carter, soldiers are not allowed to bear arms. It is against the law to provide our own military personel with weapons to secure their own base, protect themselves, and kill a bad guy…but we can provide them with little candles for vigils incase something bad happens. So we don’t trust our fighting men and women with fire-arms, but at least we do trust them with fire. (These are surely the last gasps of a once great nation.)

no TJ, it was Jimmy Carter who pushed a law making it illegal to bear arms on military bases. When a soldier drives onto his post, he leaves his right to bear arms at the gate. amazing, huh. Those soldiers st Ft Hood had to call 911.

james:
re: dropped the phrase “War on Terror”
‘freedom fries’, ‘mission accomplished’ did nothing, actions matter not ‘feel better’ phrases
your suggestion that Obama has been ‘dropping the ball on the war on terror’ because of semantics, is at best very strange.
can people like Napolitano say dumb and inarticulate things, of course, what matters more is whether they are able to correct mistakes and do their job, as opposed to other administrations which are dogmatic and go for years with the same wrong strategy and policy.
re: there has been the downplaying of Major Hasan’s treasonous attack on Ft. Hood
that’s your characterization of events, and your own time line,
re: President Obama did authorize the attack of the pirates and increased bombing along the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as in Yemen. I would expect nothing less!
so, when the Pres. does what he is ‘supposed to do’, that’s to be expected, but not speaking the rightwing approved phrases’ over and over means he’s not taking his job seriously……
a curious bit of ‘logic’

The Fort Hood incident took place on November 5, 2009. It took two months and 12 days for the Obama administration to recognize it is a terrorist act. Besides, do they agree that there are dots unconnected like in Underwear bomber incidents ?

Bush had great names for the “war on terror” which kept Americans on edge and ready to vote for him. It’s the Republican way. Think “tax relief.” I mean, who is actually suffering due to taxes? Semantics, semantics, semantics. What Bush failed to due was to actually take action and put the country’s resources behind the name. Our men and women would be much more successful if GM was mobilized for the war effort and started pumping out MRAPs back in 2003. However, the wars are just a distraction, at best, for the average American. No one, other than our great Soldiers, make a sacrifice. That is where Bush failed.
So, I don’t really care what the names of a war are, but let’s take action and mobilize the nation to get our resources behind our men and women and allow them to be successful. Will the people accept not being able to buy a new SUV to support the war effort?

If your words downplay the severity of an attack, the attack is PERCEIVED to be less than it may really be (and vice versa). If individuals down the ladder perceive that the top are downplaying something then those individuals may not have as much of a sense of urgency to do a thorough investigation.
Within a couple of days after the attack on Ft. Hood the public already knew: 1) We are at war with Islamic extremists; 2) Major Hasan is a member of the U. S. Army; 3) Major Hasan is Muslim; 4) Major Hasan had writings expressing beliefs sympathetic to the Islamic extremists with whom we are fighting; 5) Major Hasan communicated with an imam, Anwar al-Awlaki, known to be linked to al Qaeda; 6) Major Hasan sought out to execute a large number of fellow soldiers–killing 13 (12 of whom were on active duty) and wounding 31 others.
Taking up the cause of the enemy during time of war and purposely killing fellow soldiers is an act of treason. THAT is what Major Hasan did and the Administration knew this within hours of his identification. Yet more than two months later, the Administration has yet to charge Major Hasan with treason.