Following Levin, Reyes Postpones House Intel Committee Briefing on Fort Hood
The Washington Independent
Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Silvestre Reyes (D-TX) issued the following statement regarding the postponement of a full Committee briefing on information related to the Fort Hood shooting: Here’s the full text:
“Due to the high visibility of the issues surrounding the tragic event at Fort Hood, the President has instructed the National Security Council to assume control of all informational briefings. The NSC has directed that the leadership, as well as the chairmen and ranking minority members of the relevant congressional committees receive briefings first.
“I have been told that the Director of National Intelligence is still committed to providing the full membership a briefing on the activities within the jurisdiction of this Committee. I believe that this will occur, and I will push to schedule a briefing before the end of this week.”
Just yesterday, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) postponed the Senate Armed Services Committee’s scheduled briefing on Fort Hood in accordance with President Obama’s request for Congress to await the results of military and law enforcement inquiries.
Fort Hood attack likely Islamist terrorism, Cornyn and Lieberman say
Star Telegram
Senator Cornyn joins Senator Lieberman in calling Ft. Hood attack terrorism.
Sen. John Cornyn of Texas is joining Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., in publicly declaring that the attack on Fort Hood is likely an act of Islamist terrorism.
Cornyn wrote a letter to President Barack Obama today urging the White House not to let “political correctness” get in the way of investigating the Nov. 5 massacre that left 13 people dead and more than 30 wounded. “As more and more facts surrounding the Fort Hood attack surface, it looks increasingly probable that the alleged attacker, Major Nidal Hasan, heeded these terrorist calls to violence, compelled by a fanatical religious ideology. If Islamist terrorism was the driving force behind the senseless violence at Fort Hood, as it seems to be, this attack must serve as a call to action for the federal government,” Cornyn wrote.
“Evidence indicating that terrorist activity may be in the offing must always be run to ground; federal agencies must follow every lead and look into every possible threat, regardless of whose particular sensitivities might be offended in the process,” he continued.
“We must never allow the safety of those who defend our freedom to be made a secondary priority to political correctness.”
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Lieberman’s committee is planning a hearing on the Fort Hood mass shooting on Thursday. His repeated assertions that the attack by accused gunman Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is likely an act of terrorism has been repeatedly criticized by Democrats.
White House won’t provide witnesses for Fort Hood hearing
The Washington Post
Obama stonewalls. Lieberman rebuffed.: White House won’t provide witnesses for Ft Hood hearing.
The first public congressional hearing on the Fort Hood attack will not include testimony from any current federal law enforcement, military or intelligence officials because the Obama administration “declined to provide any” such witnesses, according to a Senate committee source.
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But the list does not include anyone actively involved in investigating the Fort Hood attack, or anyone who might have been responsible for decisions made by various government agencies before the attack about whether to investigate the shooting suspect, Nidal Hasan. The Senate committee source said HSGAC Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) had hoped to have witnesses from the FBI and the U.S. Army, but was rebuffed in his requests.
Separately, a closed-door Senate Armed Services Committee briefing on the status of the Fort Hood investigation has been postponed, after initially being scheduled for Monday afternoon.
Army chief forming panel to examine career of Ft. Hood Terrorist
Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the Army’s chief of staff, is forming a panel to look closely at the military career of Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, the man accused in the Ft Hood shootings and probe whether warning signs were missed, a senior Army official said Monday.
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“Casey is looking at a panel that will look longitudinally across Hasan’s entire career to figure out how did this happen.
CAIR: Too soon for Ft. Hood ‘rush to judgment’
…..CAIR is a front group for the muslim terrorists. They should be rounded up and deported. ~ Wild Thing
Politico
Council for American-Islamic Relations national communications director Ibrahim Hooper said Sunday that the U.S. still isn’t clear if the shootings at Fort Hood were an act of terrorism.
“To call it an act of terror is to jump to conclusions, to rush to judgment,” Hooper said in an appearance on TV One’s “Washington Watch.”
“Why can’t the killer at Fort Hood just be a crazy guy? Don’t take it out on American Muslims because you’re upset about another issue,” he said in response to questions the shooting has raised about American Muslims in the U.S. Army.
Appearing Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani offered such a judgment, saying the Obama administration has been “very slow to react to the whole situation with Major Hasan, which was clearly a terrorist act in the name of Islamic terrorism.”
“I would want to see the facts develop,” Giuliani said. “I think the administration has been very slow to come to the conclusion that Major Hasan was an Islamic extremist terrorist. I mean, the reality is, he announced “Allah akbar” when he shot and killed those people. He was communicating with a cleric who was encouraging terrorism. And now it turns out he has — he even has business cards saying ‘solder of Allah.'”
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Wild Thing’s comment…….
This move stinks to high heaven! Obama wants to control the spin put on the updates that go out. Hasan was part of Obama’s transition team as well. I posted about that before.
Obama and Erick Holder assign the 9/11 plotters to the civilian courts when it was, in his eyes, politically convenient to do so. Then he assigns the Intelligence arm of the government to a crime Obama really doesn’t want the world to see as a national security issue.
I feel a sense of utter shock and sadness for our service people who were under this terrorist’s psychiatric care.
And now we are finding out he was pushing to charge his “patients” with war crimes.
Can you imagine??!! Can you imagine working through mental anguish under the wolf terrorist invited in by a PC program of “inclusion”???!!
Can you imagine pledging your life to uphold the Constitution then watch who is elected President and then have a Psychiatrist tell you that what you are trained to do is now a “war crime”.
I hope some guardian angels were watching over the people who were funneled to this evil man. I hope that they could see the devil even in their need for healing and fight off the torture.
Prayers and support for all those who have been horribly damaged by this madness we call “tolerance” and other doubleplusungood terms.
Obama: “We are 5 days from FUNDAMENTALly transforming America”
Barack Obama at the University of Missouri in Columbia on Thursday, October 30th, 5 days before the election.
It’s CYA all the way. His attack on Rev Manning proves that he doesn’t want the black community to hear the truth nor does he want the truth about muzzie influence in that community to be brought to light. Nidal Malik Hasan is a threat to his deceit, he has to scramble to disassociate himself from the truth.
The attempt at avoidance is spinning out of control, much to the jerk’s dismay. He seems clueless as to how deep that narcissitic hole he is digging….These mourning families deserve ALL the information, plain and simple. The country needs the same information. Anything less is a complete government scam.
“he has to scramble to disassociate himself from the truth”
He can try to disassociate all he wants but he can’t change the truth.
He stonewalls on everything! He drags his feet, he seems more interested in his own reflection and how good he is then on anything else. Now he doesn’t want to make his decision on Afghanistan until he has his Thanksgiving dinner. How rude! Some of our kids won’t have a Thanksgiving dinner with family and he’s pussyfooting around with their lives in his hands.
Compare Obama’s actions to those of a former Vietnamese comrade in arms to our Brave Soldiers in Vietnam against the Communists. (a Democrat screwed that up too) — http://www.vlink.com/nlvnch/kn0015.html — this is a moving story on many accounts. It speaks VOLUMES. COMMITMENT and HONOR. (it’s a tad long, but worth the read, and expect to be saying “I need a tissue, I have something in my eye”…)
Do you find it strange that the only House or Senate committee looking into the Fort Hood incident is that one headed by Joe Liebermann—says something about the Democrats who control every committee except Liebermann’s. Obama appears to have little influence over Joe, but is Lord and Master of all the other committee chairman.
The DOTS have already been connected and now it’s CYA, saving face, and Hassan’s PC has already told the politikooks what WE THE PEOPLE suspect…
FDR electrocuted MOST of the German Nazi saboteurs that arrived in NY and Florida via U-Boat after conducting MILITARY TRIBUNALS ‘IN’ the USA during WW II! http://www.michaelsavage.com
Hasan was born in this country. But a cloistered community, where Islam is the rule. He could have been born anywhere and still turn out the same. He believes the Koran, and followed it rules of Jihad, to kill the infidels.
A culture that strong on its youth to produce that strong a commitment tells me there is no Moderate Moslems. It is a question of time…I wonder if obama will join them.
obama keeps playing his word games, and changing the rules. He broke another promsise, to do whatever is necessary to defend this country, which by the way is his job, not remake it.
This is way off topic but does anyone here know that it is LindaSoG’s Birthday??? I didn’t rat on her either:)
Jack, yes it sure is Linda’s birthday.
I sent her something earlier.
That is so nice of you to remember Jack.
Alex wow thank you for the link.
Thank you everyone, I agree so much
with your input on this.
Your left wing socialists will be working overtime to paint this Islamist weasel as the poor victim in this twisted incident. At Australian Islamist Monitor we have a regular ex muslim poster that gives us valueable insight into the mindset of these people. Here is his assessment where America is going wrong. I have to agree with everything he has said. PC is killing America and indeed the entire West. Unless we fight back on this insidious disease we are going to LOSE….and LOSE badly. How many of you are going to sit back and watch it unfold? Well….this gal ain’t. We have several activist groups forming in Oz and I am intending to join. Some of us are academics, so it isn’t as if we are a looney group that won’t gain in credibility and strength. Plans are afoot to form a legitimate Political Party. We have radiply come to the conclusion that the two major parties will not save us from the coming Islamist wave of terror. What is engulfing Pakistan will soon happen in the West. I am not going to stand idly by while these animals destroy my country.
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HERE IS HIS POST:
The Fort Hood massacre is an Islamic terrorist attack of special significance because it was the first major terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11 and was carried out by a highly qualified doctor in a military base. It is even of more significance because of its casualties that included dozens of dead or injured and, more significantly, the American common sense.
As an ex Muslim with knowledge of the Islamic mindset, I knew that it was only a matter of time when something like that, or worse, would happen on American soil. America is not really safe from Islamic terrorism, not with millions of Muslims within its borders, some in the highest offices.
Major Hasan was not a puzzle but a straightforward Muslim. He made no secret of his beliefs, which he advertised to his colleagues, his patients and his audience, but America, with all its greatness, was too scared to offend him. Major Hasan did not even bother to practice taqiya (Islamic deceit) which is a sign of his confidence in the weakness of his enemy. Practicing taqyia is prescribed to protect Muslims who live in non Islamic countries, or when secular regimes take over the control of Muslim countries.
In a way, Major Hasan was an honest terrorist; he was open about his beliefs all the way through. His ‘medical’ lecture to his medical audience, as judged from those slides, was a proof of his thorough knowledge of Islam. He probably never came across websites critical to Islam, like this website, but he would have agreed to our facts about his religion. However, he would have disagreed with us that a religion with such facts isn’t a religion at all, but a cult.
America was given the question and its answer and still got it wrong. In a normal country with a normal survival instinct, Hasan would have been stopped and disciplined from the earliest sign. But that is America, a country that is not driven by its survival instinct but by its politically correct instinct. Hasan was clear and uncompromising in his Islamic beliefs, but the American’s sense, for the fear of offending him, was too numbed to sense any Islamic terrorism. It is still too numbed to sense any Islamic terrorism even after he committed his murders. But that is America which elected a Muslim, or a Muslim in disguise, to the white house only seven years after 9/11.