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Congressional Requests for Information From CIA On Hasan Refused
cryptogon.com
Tuesday, Nov 10th, 2009
Via: ABC
News:
U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army
Major Nidal Malik Hasan was attempting to make contact with
people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed
on classified material in the case told ABC News.
According to the officials, the Army was informed of Hasan’s
contact, but it is unclear what, if anything, the Army did in
response.
Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI), the ranking Republican on the House
Intelligence Committee, said that he requested the CIA and other
intelligence agencies brief the committee on what was known,
if anything, about Hasan by the U.S. intelligence community,
only to be refused.
In response, Hoekstra issued a document preservation request
to four intelligence agencies. The letter, dated November 7th,
was sent to directors Dennis Blair (DNI), Robert Mueller (FBI),
Lt. Gen Keith Alexander (NSA) and Leon Panetta (CIA).
Hoekstra said he is “absolutely furious” that the
house intel committee has been refused an intelligence briefing
by the DNI or CIA on Hasan’s attempt to reach out to al
Qaeda, as first reported by ABC News.
“This is a law enforcement investigation, in which other
agencies—not the CIA—have the lead,” CIA spokesman
Paul Gimigliano said in a response to ABC News. ” Any
suggestion that the CIA refused to brief Congress is incorrect.”
Investigators want to know if Hasan maintained contact with
a radical mosque leader from Virginia, Anwar al Awlaki, who
now lives in Yemen and runs a web site that promotes jihad around
the world against the U.S.
In a blog posting early Monday titled “Nidal Hassan Did
the Right Thing,” Awlaki calls Hasan a “hero”
and a “man of conscience who could not bear living the
contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that
is fighting against his own people.”
According to his site, Awlaki served as an imam in Denver,
San Diego and Falls Church, Virginia.
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