Nov 12 2009
JTTF Had Many Terrorism Dots On Hasan – Why Did We Shutdown Their Efforts To Connect Them?
My previous posts on this terrorist attack at Ft Hood:
Fort Hood: Portrait Of An American Hero, A Traitor & Possible Bureaucratic Incompetence
The Twisted Story Of The Hasan Massacre – Liberalism Run Amok
Did Someone Miss The Dots, Or Did Someone Shutdown The Connecting?
Traitor Hasan May Have Been Financing Terrorism
I have also added a new category for posts on The Ft Hood Massacre, given how this story is going to domino into something very important and politically pivotal.
The Washington Times has a very important and disturbing article out today showing that the Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTF) investigating Major Hasan prior to his terrorist attack on Ft Hood and our military personnel were chasing a lot of ‘dots’ at the time the investigation was suddenly shutdown:
Fort Hood shooting suspect Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had been in contact with numerous Muslim extremists — some of whom are under federal investigation — before last week’s rampage, two U.S. officials told The Washington Times on Wednesday.
The fact these details are coming from “U.S. officials” is another sign that something went tragically wrong with our national security after the Obama administration took over. As I noted in my previous posts, we know AG Holder and President Obama were in opposition to the FISA changes put in place by President Bush after 9-11, changes which kept us safe from attack for all the remaining years of the Bush presidency after 9-11. AG Holder’s own words on the matter were:
In addition to closing Gitmo, Holder insisted the next president should:
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Stop domestic search and seizures without warrant and end wiretapping of citizens.
“We have lost our way before,†Holder told the 350 attendees at the Friday evening session. “Now we must step back into the shining path envisioned by our founding fathers in such icons of liberty as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.â€
This ideologically driven position always ran the risk that we would  open ourselves to attack from inside – which apparently happened with the Ft Hood Massacre. Continuing with the Washington Times article:
Maj. Hasan made some of the contacts while visiting known jihadist chat rooms on the Internet, according to one of The Times’ sources, a senior FBI official. He said that several people with whom Maj. Hasan was in contact had been the focus of investigations by the FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force.
The other source, a military intelligence official, said those in contact with Maj. Hasan are located both in the U.S. and overseas. The official said they are “broadly known and characterized as Islamic extremists if not necessarily al Qaeda.”
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These ties are in addition to Maj. Hasan’s already-reported links to radical Imam Anwar al-Awlaki, who called Maj. Hasan a “hero” on a blog post about last week’s Fort Hood shooting, which left 13 dead and 29 wounded.
The article never says if the JTTFs involved with Hasan were aware of these additional contacts. But the pattern of events emerging shows why investigations need to continue to their conclusion before final judgements are made.
I personally find it hard to believe Hasan’s names, connected to these other individuals, inside and outside the country, would not have been easily detected with some simple data base searches. Even if they were not detected it would seem the investigation ended prematurely.
So why did it end so abruptly? Did the AG decide, as I have been speculating, that he did not find any reason to continue the investigative research because of his ideological agenda regarding the Bush efforts to stop terrorism by US Citizens? As I have noted before, the easiest way to stop these investigations is for the DoJ to pull support from them.
With 14 Americans dead and twice as many injured, we deserve answers.
Update: A must read history and overview of attempted terrorist attacks in this country by ‘lone wolfs’ and coordinated teams.
Does anyone remember the fiasco called “Able Danger”? This was the pre 9/11 intelligence failure due to the implementation of the “Gorelic Wall”. The wall, if you recall, was the prohibition of sharing intel among various federal agencies because of fear of internal spying. Wonder if this is a replay?
Yes AJ, keep the policies in place, pretending that you are tough on terror, but because the AG and the President can control “who” is being investigated, those two are the deciders. But you look good and tough, don’t you?
Just another scam run on the American people. They are piling up!
granitroc,
Of course I remember Able Danger
Isn’t it about the right time to Begin the drum beat announcing Holders resignation (and others)…???
Oh my goodness, I just watched General Petraeus on C-SPAN, not only is he an historian, praticly back to the beginning of man kind, he is unbelievably smart about all things in his region of responsibility (economic, social and military relationships, Iran and more). General Petraeus and General McCrystal have been friends for a long time, of course Petraeus thinks very highly of him. He hints that the McCrystal strategy could work and why, necessarily it will take a long time as Afghanistan is a country starting from zero. He also goes on to explain why Afghanistan is so important in relationship to the importance of Pakistan and it’s stability in the area. We are very lucky to have these two men incharge. I only hope the President finds them as compelling as I did. To thinking that Joe Biden would have input is farcical.
General Petraeus could sell the need for this fight.
General Petraeus could sell the need for this fight.
Kathie, I think Petraeus is all you say but he can’t sell Afghanistan to Obama, nobody can. Obama only wants advice on how to withdraw the troops and look good doing it. I don’t know how the people in this country have chosen to go down the road we are being led down right now. unbelievable.
Did I hear correctly that this administration was given the evidence, ie hasan’s emails to al q, immediately and STILL came out later and said “don’t jump to conclusions”….which we all know means give me some time to cover this up, imho.
And now, we are giving rights to terrorists and battlefield combatants that belong to American citizens…So what’s the point of going through immigration process?
And yet, hasan will be tried in a military court so that the president gets to decide his fate and the process will be less transparent… but if it terror happened under the previous administration, we want EVERYTHING to be released to our enemies. UN.BE.LIEVABLE.
This administration and the far left SEVERELY underestimate the couragen strength AND intelligence of the good people of this country. This administration has ZERO cred.
And AJ, did you see the HillBuzz letter of apology to George Bush? Tear jerker!
Did I hear correctly that this administration was given the evidence, ie hasan’s emails to al q, immediately and STILL came out later and said “don’t jump to conclusions”….which we all know means give me some time to cover this up, imho.
And now, we are giving rights to terrorists and battlefield combatants that belong to American citizens…So what’s the point of going through immigration process?
And yet, hasan will be tried in a military court so that the president gets to decide his fate and the process will be less transparent… but if it terror happened under the previous administration, we want EVERYTHING to be released to our enemies. UN.BE.LIEVABLE.
This administration and the far left SEVERELY underestimate the courage, strength AND intelligence of the good people of this country. This administration has ZERO cred.
And AJ, did you see the HillBuzz letter of apology to George Bush? Tear jerker!
The ACLU received word a few days ago that the 911 masterminds would be tried in New York, we the people hear about it today. A blog, thebravest.com is in the know.