U.S. intelligence officials on Monday denied that the intelligence community “sat” on valuable information about the alleged Fort Hood shooter before last week’s massacre, after one lawmaker questioned whether agencies like the CIA could have done more to warn military and government officials.
Rep. Pete Hoekstra, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, announced Monday that he’s asked the heads of the FBI, NSA and CIA to “preserve” all documents and material connected to the attack. He said the administration has “critical information” that it is “refusing to release” to Congress and the public about the attack, and that lawmakers will want to “scrutinize” how intelligence officials handled information about the shooter before the attack.
Hoekstra’s announcement came as ABC News reported that intelligence agencies knew for months that Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was trying to contact people associated with Al Qaeda. The report said it was unclear whether the agencies informed the Army.,
So CIA knew this guy was a “terrorist” for months and did nothing? Man this story is falling apart at the seams. All that wiretapping and ease dropping is supposed to keep us safe. What happened here?
Of course, my information is that there was a firefight when an argument over refusing to deploy crossed over into a minor mutiny as in three people fighting back.
Since the US Government cannot allow the rest of the military to know there was a revolt in the rank and file, there was a quick decision made to blame the dead Muslim, only it turns out he wasn’t dead, and in typical shoot-from-the-hip fashion the propaganda stories are not being well thought out.
See, the intelligence agencies can’t have it both ways. They can’t say they KNEW about him and let it happen but they also want the “terrorist” story over a mutiny story.
