U.S. Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) gave an “impromptu press conference” before a speaking engagement Tuesday morning, mostly on the Tucson shootings, rejecting calls for more civil rhetoric. He said that those making the calls were grandstanding,
Togo West and Vernon Clark, the co-chairmen of Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s Fort Hood commission, have been beaten up all morning in the Senate Armed Services Committee for not focusing exclusively on the threat of Islamic extremist radicalization within the military. Acrimony is all around. West tried to make the More…
After hearing this morning from Republican senators on the Armed Services Committee that their report on Fort Hood was too “politically correct” to single out Islamic extremism — and even a full-throated, explicit defense of racial and ethnic profiling — retired Adm. Vernon Clark had enough.
Yes, Clark More…
Not many senators are willing to own up to this, but here’s Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) in today’s Fort Hood hearing in the Armed Services Committee. He made it clear he’s talking about the Northwest Airlines Flight 253 case as well. Notice how he portrays himself as a brave truth-teller More…
John Brennan, the White House counterterrorism adviser, has completed his review of the November shootings at Fort Hood. The White House has just released a public version of his findings, all of which are about improving information sharing across the government — a stark contrast with Brennan’s Flight 253 More…
The commission Defense Secretary Robert Gates appointed to investigate how the Army failed to notice the radicalization of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged gunman at Fort Hood, has apparently taken a very structural examination of the failure. Look at this portion of its assessment:
As Hasan’s training progressed,
It doesn’t appear so, according to Greg Jaffe’s preview of the Pentagon’s investigation:
A high-level Pentagon inquiry into the Fort Hood shootings that left 13 people dead has concluded that the military should focus more resources on identifying service members who might pose a threat to their colleagues and
When partisanship curdles into the malleability of the truth, you get former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on “Good Morning America”:
“What he [Obama] should be doing is following the right things that Bush did – one of the right things he did was treat this as a war on
Clearly enjoying the attention he’s getting for his aggressive attacks on the Obama administration’s handling of terror threats, Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) takes to Twitter to declare victory:
Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) might have postponed this week’s planned Senate Armed Services Committee briefing on the Fort Hood shooting after President Obama asked Congress to await the results of ongoing Army and FBI inquiries. But today the committee will go forward with a closed-door briefing on Fort Hood, More…
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