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Home Front: WoT
Internal Documents Reveal How The FBI Blew Fort Hood
2013-08-28
A taste:
[MotherJones] Nearly a year before the massacre, the bureau intercepted emails between Nidal Hasan and radical holy man Anwar al-Awlaki
... Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, zapped in Yemen, al-Awlaki was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Yemen. He was an Islamic holy man who was a trainer for al-Qaeda and its franchises. His sermons were attended by three of the 9/11 hijackers, by Fort Hood murderer Nidal Malik Hussein, and Undieboomer Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He was the first U.S. citizen ever placed on a CIA target list...
 that officials called "fairly benign." They are anything but.

As it turns out, the FBI quietly released the emails in an unclassified report on the shooting, which was produced by an investigative commission headed by former FBI director William H. Webster last year. And, far from being "benign," they offer a chilling glimpse into the psyche of an Islamic radical. The report also shows how badly the FBI bungled its Hasan investigation and suggests that the Army psychiatrist's deadly rampage could have been prevented.
Posted by:trailing wife

#14  This is clearly proof we need more surveillance.
Posted by: Classical_Liberal   2013-08-28 21:27  

#13  Al-AwLaki is only a recent or near-term part of the story.

As usual the FBI-CIA = FED Agencies is at least 10 years [more?] behind the truth.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-08-28 20:06  

#12  It was not bungled. It was deliberate. ROP was the meme to be maintained. At all costs. From the top down. Good people got killed. No responsibility at the top. Congress critters and the exec are easy to buy.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2013-08-28 13:16  

#11  as I recall, over the years the good psychiatrist's colleagues and supervisors did complain -- verbally. They were either told to shut up or that it would be taken care of... and then it wasn't. Possibly because the FBI/CIA wanted to continue gathering information?
Posted by: trailing wife   2013-08-28 12:21  

#10  The report also shows how badly the FBI bungled its Hasan investigation and suggests that the Army psychiatrist's deadly rampage could have been prevented

Yes, an investigation. We were picking at threads; sorry for the whole garment falling apart...
Posted by: Pappy   2013-08-28 10:24  

#9  you've got places like chicago for medics to learn about dealing with bullet wounds

That actually is the the case, though usually it's places with Military Treatment Facilities nearby.
For a long time it was George Washington University; the Royal Navy would send its docs there.
Posted by: Pappy   2013-08-28 10:22  

#8  you've got places like chicago for medics to learn about dealing with bullet wounds.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2013-08-28 10:13  

#7  Unfortunately sir, you are correct.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-08-28 09:14  

#6  Wouldn't make any difference today. There are already in place programs for subsidized medical education programs in return for government service obligations. Given Obamacare, the return on investment is going to drop for incentive to follow the medial path who don't want to take that path. As long as the AMA maintains the certification authority on medical schools, you can count on the guild (unlike businesses) in making sure the market is not flooded with cheap labor. So, a doctor shortage is going to become very acute among the civilian population, let alone among the uniform services.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-08-28 09:09  

#5  July marked the 40th anniversary of the end of the Draft. During the Draft years medical personnel came and went, fulfilling their service obligations. As I recall, they were a pretty good lot. We've not been able to recruit enough medical professional since. As a result, we get 'contract people' civilians who attended medical school in some island nation. Of course this strengthens diversity and the integration of misfits like Nidal Hasan. The Draft had some downsides, but the commissioning of newly graduated medical professionals wasn't one of them.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-08-28 08:47  

#4  Another case of Affirmative Action vs competency. However, his chain would be composed of medical personnel. So, you understand - IAW Army regs (at least of the time when I left), doctors, nurse, lawyers and chaplains hold rank because of their skill and do not have inherit 'command authority'. They may have positional authority based upon the specific TO&E/TDA organization assignment. If you find yourself in the fantasy world of a POW camp (who takes Americans prisoners?), even though you'd have majors and colonels of those branches among you, the lieutenant or captain from other combat, combat support and even some other combat service support units would be senior in legal command authority.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-08-28 08:32  

#3  Hopefully 'raters and reviewers' are contemplating pistol eating, and have a difficult time with sleep and mirrors.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-08-28 08:06  

#2  I want to hear from the reviewers and raters.
This guy shouldn't have been boarded before he made O3 on performance alone. Probably would have been had not his demonstrated Islamic nutcasery made him invulnerable because his superiors didn't want to be accused of Islamophobia.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey   2013-08-28 08:01  

#1  No, we simply couldn't connect the dots with this here American jihadist al-Awalki, hard to find good Special Agents and intel people these days.... you know the deal. We didn't think it meant anything.....but figured it could eventually become ....."politcally sensitive"....especially with other gov't agencies involved.... so we kept each and every Hasan to al-Awlaki communiques over here in this Secure Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) in a nice file all it's own. That way if something came up, we wouldn't look quite as stupid. But then al-Awlaki got himself coincidentally drone zapped, and we thought watzit matter..... but we kept it all anyways, just in case.

No need to bring any of this stuff up at trial is there COL Osborne? Your decision COL, nasty old islamafobe Judge Gross is gone.....'you the man' er huh, so to speak. We're here for you on this one. All very "politically sensitive".... you know the deal.

By the way, good luck with your upcoming promotion board.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-08-28 01:07  

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