The FBI Stonewalling Congress About Fort Hood

November 11. 2009

The highest-ranking U.S. Representative on the House Intelligence Committee, Pete Hoekstra, a Republican representing the state of Michigan, has accused the FBI of being uncooperative regarding domestic, Muslim terrorist, Nidal Hasan.

Nidal Malik Hasan

FBI Director Robert Mueller and the agency he heads, has been stonewalling the U.S. Congress on the terrorist attack that left 13 American soldiers dead and 38 others injured, at the Fort Hood army base in Texas. The FBI is supposed to be accountable to Congress, but is once again humiliating the legislature, for all the world to see.

Rep. Hoekstra Getting "No Cooperation" for Fort Hood Probe

The top ranking Republican in the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) said Tuesday the FBI and CIA have given him "no cooperation at all" in his request for information on what the intelligence agencies knew about Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.

"Finally they held a briefing last night for some of the senators and some of my staff, but again, the House is not in session, I've not been able to get the information at this point," he said on Tuesday's "Washington Unplugged." "I don't think they've been as cooperative as what the law requires them to be with Congress."

CBSNews.com Special Report: Fort Hood Massacre

After "initial signals" from intelligence agencies that Major Hasan had contact with overseas terrorists, Hoekstra said he publically requested a report of the investigations -- what they knew and when they knew it.

"I said, please give me a briefing," he said. "I'd like this information before I go home [for Veterans Day recess]."

"They came back and said, we're not gonna give it to you, we're not ready and it's like, why not? And I never got a good answer as to why they wouldn't share information with us," he told CBS News' Chief Washington Correspondent Bob Schieffer...

http://www.cbsnews.com

Military not told about Ft. Hood suspect's e-mails

November 11, 2009 - A Defense official says the FBI and anti-terrorism teams never shared information about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's contact with a radical Yemeni imam. President Obama has ordered a review.

Reporting from Washington - Two high-profile anti-terrorism task forces did not inform the Defense Department about contacts between a radical Islamic cleric and the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people in last week's rampage at Ft. Hood, a senior Defense official said Tuesday... 

http://www.latimes.com