Levin: May be more troubling e-mails from Hasan

[Octafish]

Source: Associated Press

By PAMELA HESS and ANNE GEARAN (AP) – 1 hour ago

WASHINGTON — There may be additional e-mails that could have tipped off law enforcement or military officials to the Fort Hood shooter before he went on his deadly rampage, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Friday.

The U.S. government intercepted at least 18 e-mails between Hasan and Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American-born cleric. They were passed along to two Joint Terrorism Task Force cells led by the FBI, but a senior defense official said no one at the Defense Department knew about the messages until after the shootings. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss intelligence procedures.

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., said after a briefing from Pentagon and Army officials that his committee will investigate how those and other e-mails involving the alleged shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, were handled and why the U.S. military was not made aware of them before the Nov. 5 shooting.

Levin said his committee is focused on determining whether the Defense Department's representative on the terrorism task force acted appropriately and effectively.

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What ever happened to ECHELON and TIA and all that spying-on-citizens jazz?

[sattahipdeep]

1. kick

:shrug:

[Blue_In_AK]

2. I thought the point of all the citizen surveillance

was to uncover just this sort of thing. This information seems "interesting" enough that someone close to Hasan within the military should have been alerted. Why would the FBI not tell the military? Could the military officials be covering something up? And who does the original intercepting? The article says the "U.S. Government" intercepted the e-mails, but the information was passed along to the FBI. If the members of that terrorism unit in the FBI aren't curious enough about this relationship with the radical cleric to talk to the military about it, it seems like they're not doing their job,

I don't care for the electronic surveillance intrusion into our lives, but it seems even more odious when they don't even follow up on the information they get.

I would like to read the rest of the article, but I can't get it to load.

[sattahipdeep]

3. Carl Levin

Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Leaders of the Senate's defense and homeland security committees said they plan to investigate why a terrorism task force led by the FBI didn't tell the Pentagon about e-mail exchanges between Fort Hood shooting ...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a3aNEu67K_hA

Defense Attorney: Hasan Is Paralyzed From the Chest Down

"He is an individual in need of constant medical attention," Galligan said. "He has no sensation from his chest down."

Previously, Galligan had said Hasan was paralyzed from the waist down. Galligan questioned the speed with which the legal process is moving.

"In the 36 years I've dealt with military justice cases," Galligan said, "this is the first time I have ever had to go to an ICU to conduct a hearing.

"We could have conducted this hearing next week," he said. "He is paralyzed. He is not going on leave."

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/defense-attorney-hasan-paralyzed-chest/story?id=9146644

Indeed

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4148620&mesg_id=4154698

[mrbarber]

4. Awww is poor Hasan having issues with meeting with his lawyers cause of his injuries?

Tough shit you murderous asshole.