Report Finds FBI Shortcomings in Probing Fort Hood Shooter
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The FBI failed to recognize the threat posed by U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan before he allegedly killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, because poor organization, overwork and concern about a “politically sensitive” case all led to an assessment that was “belated, incomplete and rushed,” according to an independent report.
“The attack could have been prevented” if the Defense Department and FBI “had acted sensibly and responsibly based on the evidence they had of Hasan’s radicalization to violent Islamist extremism,” Joseph Lieberman, a Connecticut independent who heads the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said today after the release of the report.