Obama orders review of files on Fort Hood shooting suspect

[kpete]

Source: AFP

Obama orders review of files on Fort Hood shooting suspect

(AFP) – 2 hours ago

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has ordered a review of how intelligence agencies handled information they had gathered on an army psychiatrist ahead of his alleged shooting rampage at Fort Hood, the White House said Thursday.

"I directed an immediate review be initiated to determine how any such intelligence was handled, shared, and acted upon within individual departments and agencies and what intelligence was shared with others," Obama said in a statement.

Preliminary results will be provided by November 30 to John Brennan, Obama's assistant for homeland security and counterterrorism.

The order to conduct an "immediate inventory" of all intelligence in US government files was issued on November 6, a day after the massacre which left 13 people dead and 42 wounded.


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[uppityperson]

1. good. k&r

[Pirate Smile]

2. Within hours, Obama ordered intelligence review of shootings

Source: McClatchy

WASHINGTON — Within 24 hours of last week's killing spree at Fort Hood, Texas, President Barack Obama had ordered a high-level review of how U.S. officials handled information related to the alleged gunman, Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.

The speed with which Obama ordered the review — on the day after the shooting and before news organizations began what has become an almost daily drumbeat of revelations about evidence of Hasan's radical leanings and questionable contacts — suggests that top-level administration officials knew within hours that Hasan was no ordinary soldier whose shooting spree came as a complete surprise.

The White House released a copy of Obama's order, which was issued last Friday, on Thursday. It offered no explanation for why it had delayed publicizing the order for nearly a week or why the president had acted so quickly.

In the order, Obama directed John Brennan, his adviser on homeland security and counterterrorism, to find out what various federal agencies knew about Hasan, how they treated the information and whether they shared it with other agencies.
He also told the Defense Department, the FBI and the director of national intelligence to turn over all files on Hasan to Brennan and that he wanted a preliminary report by Nov. 30.



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[madmax]

3. Bush would have ordered another drink... n/t

[Cha]

4. And, then gone

off to clear some brush.

[rpannier]

5. or attended someone's birthday party

Oh wait! My bad. He only goes to parties when people are stuck and dying in areas of natural disasters

[boppers]

6. So did Obama's team start the witchhunt, or did his team anticpate it?

They haven't dug up much, but a whole lotta ink's been used on this angle...