The Fort Hood killer has apparently had contact with several individuals who were under FBI surveillance in the months leading up to the shootings, so there may be a lot more going on than what was originally thought.
My questions are this: if the FBI was aware of the apparent contacts, why didn’t they put military authorities on alert that one of their own was linked to Muslim radicals in this country? And why didn’t the military take this man off active duty if there was a link?
Lot of questions, not enough answers yet. I’m not buying into the political correctness argument that Fox News has raised yet. Legal barriers exist which prevented the exchange of information between the FBI and the Army. And the First Amendment does come into play with Major Hasan’s e-mails to the people he was trying to contact.
Yet he used a U.S. military computer to send his e-mails, didn’t he? And the understanding is that all e-mails are the property of the company that owns the computer and pays the Internet bill. Most businesses have the same policy, as do schools. And doesn’t the military have regulations on appropriateness of communications with certain individuals who incite religious violence?
The powers that be need to get their act together and make the changes necessary to prevent this kind of stuff from happening again.
