What’s Your Name, Little Bureaucrat, What’s Your Name?
SHOULDN’T YOU SAY
and shouldn’t our vaunted “Truth-to-Power”-Press ask the question?
Hasan: “The bullets of the fighters of Afghanistan and Iraq are a reflection of the feelings of the Muslims towards America. ”
In the emails, Hasan appeared to question U.S. involvement in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and often used “evidence from sharia that what America was doing should be confronted.”
…Hasan tells Awlaki, “I can’t wait to join you” in the afterlife.
…Hasan also asked Awlaki “when is jihad appropriate, and whether it is permissible if there are innocents killed in a suicide attack.”
That’s “benign”? If an Italian police captain frequently called a mafia boss to ask about the fine points of loan-sharking and money-laundering, would the FBI call it “research”?
Got that? A serving U.S. Army officer and devout Muslim emails an al Qaeda recruiter to ask about jihad and collateral damage from attacks, and the FBI, with knowledge of the content of those emails, assures the press they are “benign.”
Unbelievable.
Literally unbelievable. I don’t believe it for a minute.
That was a political decision by an Obama appointee or appointees following orders. How high up?
Unless you think a Joint Terrorism Task Force was allowed to operate without executive oversight, there was an administration official involved. The most “benign” case would be that this official was negligent. The more likely explanation is that a political or ideological decision was made not to pursue Hasan.
Shouldn’t we should know the names of these officials so we know that they are no longer in that position to repeat the same deadly mistakes in the next case?
And if they were following orders from the White House?
Or are some things literally just too much to ask?
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