US Intelligence Aware “Months Ago” That Nidal Malik Hasan Was Trying To Contact Al Qaeda

Proof • November 9, 2009

U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News.
It is not known whether the intelligence agencies informed the Army that one of its officers was seeking to connect with suspected al Qaeda figures, the officials said.
One senior lawmaker said the CIA had, so far, refused to brief the intelligence committees on what, if any, knowledge they had about Hasan’s efforts.
CIA director Leon Panetta and the Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, have been asked by Congress “to preserve” all documents and intelligence files that relate to Hasan, according to the lawmaker.

Months ago? How many months ago?
As more evidence emerges it becomes more and more clear that this attack could have been stopped but wasn’t.
It’s easy for us to go back and connect the dots with 20/20 hindsight, but internet postings praising terrorist attacks? Connections with radical Islamic leaders? Attempts to contact al Qaeda?
This man had no business serving on a US military base.

Tags: Asshats, Domestic Issues, Politics

http://Array J.R.

one can only hope and wonder if the cia was watching and waiting to gather info on who he contacted and how it was all organized. Although given this guy's rants and erratic behaviors I don't think anything they release about what they had known or were doing can justify not taking action against this sicko prior to his slaughter.
sayanything-42

Rob,

CIA and NSA had the information according to your article. The article further states that they don't know if Army Intelligence, Counter Intelligence, or CID were informed. Nor do we know if this intelligence was passed to FBI Counter Intelligence.

It seems to me that the Gorelick wall is still intact and preventing the appropriate flow of tactical intelligence to the agencies which need that intelligence.
sayanything-17246

There were so many red flags with this man it is surreal.

I'm new and don't have a blog yet, so I hope you don't mind Rob if I put this up in your blog.

When I found this I had to read it 5 times just to wrap around my brain that there were so many witnesses to just this one rant, and the guy still gets a promotion to Major.

Fort Hood gunman had told US military colleagues that infidels should have their throats cut

Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the gunman who killed 13 at America's Fort Hood military base, once gave a lecture to other doctors in which he said non-believers should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats

He also told colleagues at America's top military hospital that non-Muslims were infidels condemned to hell who should be set on fire.

The outburst came during an hour-long talk Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, gave on the Koran in front of dozens of other doctors at Walter Reed Army Medical Centre in Washington DC, where he worked for six years before arriving at Fort Hood in July.

The link is here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northam…
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Nothing cries out "mental health professional" like advising people to slit throats and torture people with boiling oil!
sayanything-453

Yep! Blame Gorelick for this.

Omit the idiot naval intelligence officer that does not know the geographical location of Greece.

I wonder how many more incompetents like you we have in our (un)intelligence services.
keitholson

Please fix your headline. I have seen nothing yet to say the military was aware of Hasan's ties to terrorism. It would be expected as Obama rebuilds Clinton's walls between the CIA, FBI, and local law enforcement that this issue will only become worse. I don't mean to imply that had the military known they would have been able to do anything. Just take Janet N's comment that it was now homeland securities main job to make sure the rest of us do not overreact in our actions toward muslims. It is apparent to me that had the US Army taken any actions against Hasan, the commanders involved would have been punished, their careers ruined and quite possibly faced charges for religious and ethnic insensitivity.

Keith
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Please fix your headline. I have seen nothing yet to say the military was aware of Hasan's ties to terrorism.

Well, I wrote "military" but meant "intelligence" so I'll fix that, but the military was certainly aware of Hasan praising terrorists on the internet.
GrampsWithCramps

STOP JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS!!!!!!
http://fu.com/ robert108

"Blame Gorelick for this."

She created the "wall of separation", but under Clinton's orders, so they are both to blame.
Pay attention to the facts, if you can.
sayanything-17246

Will do.

Thank you.
sayanything-42

r108,

Asking "Pay attention to the facts, if you can." of a deadtreerat is an exercise in futility.
sayanything-453

Pay attention to the facts, if you can.

What I wrote is a fact. Get a life.
sayanything-453

r108,

Asking "Pay attention to the facts, if you can." of a deadtreerat is an exercise in futility.

What I wrote is a fact. Can you deny the fact, that you an ex naval intelligence officer, did/does not know where Greece is located?

Methinks trying to teach you geography is an exercise in futility.

How can our intelligence services soar with the eagles when they work with turkeys?
http://fu.com/ robert108

It's a fact that Gorelick and Clinton are to blame for the wall of separation between the intel and law enforcement agencies. You denied that fact.

Nice try at a totally irrelevant straw man, though.
As usual, you're wrong and denying it.
sayanything-42

r108,

Indeed he is both wrong and wet to the knees while gazing upon the Pyramids.
sayanything-453

Nice try at a totally irrelevant straw man, though.

As usual, you're wrong and denying it.

Straw man you say?

Do you feel comfortable knowing our intelligence officers don't have a clue as to where Greece is located?

Get a life sir.
sayanything-453

r108,

Indeed he is both wrong and wet to the knees while gazing upon the Pyramids.

Your inteligence gathering abilities are sorely lacking.

I was wading in the Nile while gazing upon the Pyramids.
http://fu.com/ robert108

Looks like the term "straw man" is just one more thing about which you are ignorant.

You confuse your use of personal attack with relevant debate, once again. I understand that, as a deeply ignorant person, you have nothing else.
sayanything-45

Shocking if true.
sayanything-81

I bet obama let it happen to pass the healthcare bill in its shadow, right guys? its another conspiracy. where's glenn beck with his faulty logic and his chalkboard?
Hanni

Not to discount the severity of this information, but it's important to note, and more importantly understand the difference between Al Qaeda, and someone "associated" with Al Qaeda, as well as the difference between a terrorist and a "suspected terrorist".

Anyone who travels a lot can be on the "terrorist watch list". If you travel to Guam, South Korea, Japan, Chile, DC, San Diego on a regular basis, you raise eyebrows….even if you have security clearance.

Please try to be responsible Rob….can you just once try and be responsible. Act like an adult for a change.
sayanything-1317

People aren't put on the terrorist watch list for simply leaving the country once in a while. Now if you repeatedly travel to the mountains of Pakistan for "business meetings" once a month or so, that might raise some eyebrows. Especially if your bank account grows.

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