Ten years earlier in Fort Hood, Texas, some 500 miles to the east, U.S. Army major Nidal Hasan was planning a deadly attack, similar in some ways but decidedly different in response from the media and political establishments.
Unlike the El Paso shooter, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, then headed by Robert Mueller, was on to Hasan from the start.
In June of 2009, the FBI's Washington field office responded "WFO does not currently assess Hasan to be involved in terrorist activities." The FBI promptly dropped the case until November 5, when field agents said: "You know who that is. That's our boy."
As it emerged in the 2012 congressional hearings on Lessons from Fort Hood: Improving our Ability to Connect the Dots, their boy Nidal Hasan, "Walked into the Soldier Readiness Center at Fort Hood, Texas, and shouted the classic jihadist term 'Allahu Akbar' and opened fire on unarmed soldiers and civilians. He killed 13 and wounded 42 others. This was the most horrific terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11." That was accurate, but did not capture the details.
Using privately purchased handguns, Major Hasan chased down wounded soldiers and shot them in the back.
At the time, it did not emerge that the FBI had dropped the ball on Hasan and did nothing to stop him.
"Yet no action was taken. Instead, Major Hasan was rewarded for his work and promoted." In reality, "Hasan was barely a competent psychiatrist, whose radical views alarmed his colleagues."
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274549/el-paso-fort-hood-lloyd-billingsley
Unlike the El Paso shooter, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, then headed by Robert Mueller, was on to Hasan from the start.
In June of 2009, the FBI's Washington field office responded "WFO does not currently assess Hasan to be involved in terrorist activities." The FBI promptly dropped the case until November 5, when field agents said: "You know who that is. That's our boy."
As it emerged in the 2012 congressional hearings on Lessons from Fort Hood: Improving our Ability to Connect the Dots, their boy Nidal Hasan, "Walked into the Soldier Readiness Center at Fort Hood, Texas, and shouted the classic jihadist term 'Allahu Akbar' and opened fire on unarmed soldiers and civilians. He killed 13 and wounded 42 others. This was the most horrific terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11." That was accurate, but did not capture the details.
Using privately purchased handguns, Major Hasan chased down wounded soldiers and shot them in the back.
At the time, it did not emerge that the FBI had dropped the ball on Hasan and did nothing to stop him.
"Yet no action was taken. Instead, Major Hasan was rewarded for his work and promoted." In reality, "Hasan was barely a competent psychiatrist, whose radical views alarmed his colleagues."
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274549/el-paso-fort-hood-lloyd-billingsley
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