Release the Al-Awlaki/Major Nidal Hasan Correspondence Now!
Al-Awlaki says that the reason President Obama has not released the emails is because the Obama administration has something to hide: “His administration tried to portray the operation of brother Nidal Hasan as an individual act of violence by an individual. The administration practiced the control on the leak of information concerning the operation in order to cushion the reaction of the American public,” al-Awlaki says on the tape, the translation of which was provided by SITE. The story first broke on CNN.
It is a sorry day for America when the rising star of jihad has a valid point. Why hasn’t the Obama administration released the full set of al-Awlaki/Hasan emails? I asked this of the White House press office and have not yet received an answer back.
The release of the emails will likely be stonewalled because they would be a lose-lose situation for the administration. If one of the many U.S. intelligence agencies was in fact monitoring the correspondence, as they should have been, then the subtext of al-Awlaki’s challenge is that there might be something in the emails that suggests Hasan’s murderous rampage was about to go down and therefore could have been prevented. Conversely, if no American intelligence agency was monitoring correspondences between a radical cleric in Yemen and a radical Muslim at one of the largest military bases in the U.S., then one has to wonder why not. Was the NSA really too busy taking down license plate numbers from space?
While al-Awlaki continues to elevate his status as al-Qaeda’s rising star, throughout the rest of his tape he eerily calls for every Muslim in America to rise up and join the jihad against America. This could be scoffed at as wishful thinking if only al-Awlaki didn’t have such a dangerous track record firmly in place. “Terrorism is theater,” counterterrorism analyst Brian Jenkins once said, and certainly the pupils of al-Awlaki feature prominently in the press. Not only was al-Awlaki a mentor to Nidal Hasan; he was also a mentor to the Christmas Day underwear bomber. And just this month, another American jihadist was arrested in Yemen and made headlines. Sharif Mobley worked at five U.S. nuclear power plants and proved to be murderously cunning after his arrest. Mobley was recovering in a hospital in Yemen when he tricked a hospital worker, a Muslim, into unshackling him so the two men could pray. When the hospital worker set Mobley free, the New Jersey jihadist grabbed the man’s gun and shot him dead.
If terrorism is theater, democracy is transparency. The Obama administration should release the full set of al-Awlaki/Hasan emails now, or admit they do not have them.
Annie, I guess I have to disagree with you on two points. First is that Hassan would be a “US Person” under the law and so would have required a FISA Court order to intercept; even if they intercepted him by accident, it would have literally been criminal to keep the intercepts.
The second is that the information you want to have revealed — whether Hassan was being intercepted and what was said, or conversely that he wasn’t intercepted, and the weaknesses that might indicate — is pretty much exactly what is meant by “sources and methods”. As such, it’s properly classified and likely to remain classified.
Charlie, Hassan may be an American jihadist, but s-Awlaki is not. Moreover, s-Awlaki is a terrorist, who is being investigated by the US. So, all his exchanges with anyone in the universe can/will/should be automatically recorded and stored. I am sure there is already a legal permission by the Courts to do so – and it’s likely there is no need for a legal permission, since this s-Avlaki person is outside of US.
Secondly, if US cannot intercept emails to and from the US base to a known Islamic terrorist – that’s quite embarassing.
Lastly, affirmative action and wrongly understood diversity lead to very costly failure – just watch what Barack Obama and Hassan did to this country in the last year.
Hasan was on the radar of intelligence in 2008; but when Obama, and Holder took over, the investigation was shut down. It was known that Hassan was ‘a soldier of allah’.
I would refer to full explanation on the site I frequently read at:
http://www.strata-sphere.com.
Aj did a good job in explaining that Obama and Holder wanted to accomate muslims. Go, and read in Aj’s archive, it will explain this incident.
With naive gullible, fools like Charlie Martin watching THEIR backs it seems that ANY Terrorist can do as he likes. Is it any wonder Islamic Terrorist scum can infiltrate the USA with impunity.
Aulaki had popped up in every investigation from September 11th, to Toronto,
Ft. Dix, the TransAtlantic bomb plot, and now apparently with “Jihad Jane’
and company. I can’t imagine he wouldn’t have raised red flags
If Israel were to, G-d forbid, “lose”; the American Islime would rise up and rip the USA to the ground exactly as called for by this Imam, (like Iraq) and the current administrtion would say they have a constitutional right to protest; and if you tried to defend your life and/or property against the American Islime, this administration would jail you, if for nothing else, for insulting Islime…
My analysis is exactly correct.
Al-Awlaki sounds just like a serial killer taunting the authorities because he enjoys portraying himself as smarter than them. Guess what? Whether our gov had the emails all along or not, he is right. Stupid not to have the emails. Stupid not to have taken them as a serious threat. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Leaves me wondering if anyone has even bothered to see if there are any dots to connect regarding the guy who beheaded his wife or the guy who brutally attacked a woman at a bar? Both men were muslims. They may be isolated incidents and only related to the attacker’s personal beliefs and not related directly to a larger purpose, but…what if they aren’t?
6. Jay Getty: “My analysis is exactly correct.”
Good for you! And how long have you been undergoing analysis?