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Nidal Hasan and Al Qaeda
ABC News says that "US intelligence agencies" knew for weeks that Army Major Nidal Hasan, the suspect in the Fort Hood shootings, had tried "to make contact with people associated with Al Qaeda." The piece also reports (citing an unnamed "senior lawmaker") that the CIA has "so far" refused to brief Congress about whether it had prior knowlege of any connections between Hasan and Al Qaeda.
Over at Talking Points Memo, Mother Jones alum Justin Elliott reports that the CIA is denying that it refused to brief Congress—but Elliott says nothing about whether the CIA contradicted the ABC piece's core claim about the intelligence community knowing that Hasan had been trying to make contact with Al Qaeda.
Bottom line: the situation is still very unclear, but since Hasan is now awake and talking, we'll probably know more very soon.
"U.S. intelligence agencies
"U.S. intelligence agencies learned months ago that Army Major Nidal Hasan was trying to make contacts with Al Qaeda, two sources tell ABC News. It is unknown if these agencies informed the Army."That was the "communication wall" John Ashcroft and colleagues at the Justice Dept. worked hard to bring down. A result of that work was the Patriot Act. C.A.I.R. hated it.But dhimmi democrats head up the Justice Dept.now.
I do not miss those
I do not miss those reflective PT belts. Stupidest damn thing ever.
Oh, what? Al Qaeda? I've got my bet on him just being crazy, but AQ wouldn't be the first time. Ali Mohammad.
Killed 13 people, broke 4 sets of laws, insanity defense?
I read yesterday that the gentleman is already getting a lawyer, but even with legal aid, he's still facing 4 sets of laws that he has violently transgressed against, Texas state law, Federal law, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and, last, but not least, Sharia law.
Whatever his future, it won't be pretty, will probably feature leg irons and small concrete rooms with steel bars and doors, and possibly, a death sentence and subsequent execution. But, given the gravity and the nature of the offense, I doubt they'll be dialing Judge Ito's number. It's possible he could even be tried for treason.
The guy was an officer, and an officer has a choice to resign their commission if they so choose. If he really had all this religious stuff inside, and did not want to go to war, why didn't he take his rank off, change clothes, and go be a civilian? It's still a volunteer military, so....?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason#United_States
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