Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama ordered the White House to review intelligence related to the Nov. 5 shootings at Fort Hood and the suspect, Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, and recommend improvements in information sharing by U.S. agencies.

Hasan, 39, was charged today by military authorities with 13 counts of premeditated murder in a shooting spree at the Texas Army base.

Obama named John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, as his “principal point of contact” and directed that preliminary results of the review be provided by Nov. 30, according to a memo released by the White House.

“On November 6, 2009, I directed that an immediate inventory be conducted of all intelligence in U.S. government files that existed prior to November 6, 2009, relevant to the tragic shooting at Fort Hood, Texas,” Obama wrote in a memo to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, and Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Robert Mueller.

Obama’s memo said the president wants the review “to determine how any such intelligence was handled, shared, and acted upon within individual departments and agencies and what intelligence was shared with others.”

Intelligence agencies had intercepted communications between Hasan and a Muslim religious leader in Yemen known for his anti-American views.

The Senate Armed Services Committee is scheduled to receive a closed-door briefing from Army officials on Nov. 16.

To contact the reporter on this story: Kate Andersen Brower in Washington at kandersen7@bloomberg.net

Last Updated: November 12, 2009 13:58 EST