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Fort Hood jihadist was on Obama’s transition team
No wonder President Obama cautioned against “jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts” regarding the Fort Hood shootings: terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan was a member of Obama’s Presidential Transition Task Force.
Here’s the Homeland Security document, “Thinking Anew—Security Priorities for the Next Administration” with Nidal Hasan listed on page 29 and pictured in his Army uniform on page 12 attending the “International Strategy: Re-Invigorating Our Role in the World” meeting on December 3, 2008. (h/t: FoxieNews)
The official spin is that The Homeland Security Policy Institute’s Presidential Transition Task Force was a “purely academic body and had nothing to do with Obama’s official Homeland Security transition team.” But it’s rather ironic that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano suggested in April that conservatives and American veterans might be terrorists. And we’re now finding out that Hasan wanted his patients to face war crimes charges for statements they made during psychiatric sessions with him. Pretty coincidental, huh?
These are the kinds of people President Obama chooses to surround himself with.
Judgment to lead?
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UPDATE: Another item of note, courtesy of RightPundits.
George Washington University issued official statement distancing the institution from the terrorist who killed 13 and an unborn baby at Fort Hood military base. The document is revealing that Nidal Hasan attended not one but multiple meetings of the Homeland Security Policy Institute task force that advised the President Obama’s transition team.
Page 4 of the Thinking Anew report linked above seems to indicate that Nidal probably had a hand in the Department of Homeland Security’s ridiculous change in terminology, replacing the word terrorism with the politically-correct “man-caused” disasters. That seems to deflate the argument that Nidal had “nothing to do with Obama’s official Homeland Security transition team.”
Apparently, avoiding the use of the word terrorism wasn’t quite the effective deterrent Obama and Napolitano thought it would be.
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UPDATE: To borrow the president’s lingo, let me be clear; I’m not attempting to say that President Obama has any connection whatsoever to Hasan’s despicable terrorist attack at Fort Hood. Hasan’s participation in advising Obama’s Homeland Security team, however, is questionable. Especially in light of the fact that Hasan had problematic job performance and had exhibited a pattern of zealous Islamic behavior. Surely Hasan isn’t the only Muslim in the military that could have been called upon for advice? James Simpson makes some good points:
While [Hasan's participation in the task force] is not entirely surprising, given Hasan’s former position in the Army, it raises significant questions about White House reluctance to release relevant records allegedly in its possession.
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Meanwhile, Pete Hoekstra, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Subcommittee has accused the White House of withholding information it has on Hasan and has promised to launch an investigation into the Ft. Hood shootings. For its part, the White House is getting downright nasty, recently threatening a Democrat strategist not to appear on Fox News. Things just keep getting weirder and weirder.One wonders if this wasn’t at least part of what the Administration has been trying to hide, if for no other reason than to avoid being erroneously associated with the shooter. Masters at the smear campaign, the Obama team, like all Democrats, know how damaging even mistaken associations can be. In fact they rely on it when smearing opponents. In this case they certainly don’t want to inadvertently be tied to the name.
And with good reason. The Obama administration seems more concerned with American perceptions of Muslims than in getting to the bottom of this case.
Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
