By Pete Hoekstra’s 2006 Logic, He Might Be Trying to Help al-Qaeda

Check out Rachel Maddow going hard on Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) for publicly revealing that the U.S. intelligence community is intercepting the communications of al-Qaeda-sympathetic cleric Anwar Aulaqi, a former U.S. preacher now in Yemen whom Fort Hood murder suspect Nidal Malik Hasan apparently contacted before the shooting.

Casey, McHugh to Brief Senate Armed Services Committee on Fort Hood in Secret

The briefing, according to a release from the committee, will be entirely closed to the public. Presumably Nidal Malik Hasan’s intercepted communications with al-Qaeda affiliates will be discussed. It all goes down, with testimony from Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey and Army Secretary John McHugh, on Monday, More…

Irony, We Find You in the Most Tragic Places, Like Fort Hood

TPM’s Justin Elliott and Versha Sharma collect statements from conservative groups calling for Muslim-Americans to be purged from the military in the wake of the Fort Hood shootings. Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association — well, some American families — writes, “It it is time, I suggest, More…

Some Answers About the Intelligence Community and Fort Hood Shooter

Following up on ABC’s report that U.S. intelligence knew Fort Hood shooting suspect Nidal Malik Hasan tried to contact al-Qaeda facilitators online, The New York Times reports the aftermath:

[T]he federal authorities dropped an inquiry into the matter after deciding that the messages from the psychiatrist, Maj.

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The Only Post You Ever Have to Read About Hasan, Political Correctness and National Security

It really takes an amazing amount of chutzpah for Bill Kristol to pretend he cares more about the Army than Gen. George Casey, the Army’s chief of staff, and I doubt he’d ever have the nerve to say any of this stuff to Casey’s face. But even so, his More…

Listen to Rush Limbaugh Compare the President of the United States to Ft. Hood Murderer

“If we’re going to ask why did he do it, knowing full well that he’s in the same mosque in 2001 with the radical preacher going nuts, we’re going to also [laughter] have to believe that the guy was just like Obama, and didn’t hear Rev. Wright’s words when he More…

ABC: Hasan Tried to Contact al-Qaeda

At this point, following investigators’ lead, it’s probably fair to conclude that the Fort Hood shooting suspect was motivated by religious extremism:

U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two American

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Hasan Is Awake and Communicative

Speculation about the Ft. Hood shooting suspect’s motivations may be overtaken by events. The Austin American-Statesman:

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is awake and talking, a Brooke Army Medical Center spokesman said Sunday.

Dewey Mitchell, public affairs chief at the hospital in San Antonio, said he did not know if

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Possible GOP Candidate: Ft. Hood Shootings Prove ‘The Enemy Is Infiltrating Our Military’

The Hill reports that Allen West, a former Army lieutenant colonel promoted by the National Republican Congressional Committee as one of its “young guns,” has come to some conclusions about the meaning of Maj. Hasan’s murders at Ft. Hood:

“This enemy preys on downtrodden soldiers and teaches them extremism

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Don’t Do al-Qaeda’s Work for It

Adam Serwer has an absolutely sterling post about the dangers of assigning collective guilt to American Muslims for the actions of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan:

In the past few months, we’ve seen a number of shootings performed by white men with right-wing fringe beliefs–but while an attempt to

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