Upon reports that the independent review of the FBI’s actions in the Fort Hood shooting are going to be delivered to the bureau today, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) has asked FBI Director Robert Mueller to make that report available to the public as well.
The review team, led by Judge William Webster, is expected to submit a 150-page report, containing findings and 18 formal recommendations for necessary reforms in a range of areas within the FBI.
“This report is a matter of tremendous public importance, and I call on you to release an unclassified version of it as soon as possible. In doing so, I urge you to personally ensure that the contents of the report are not unnecessarily classified to shield their public release, because such action would come directly at the expense of transparency and accountability,” Cornyn wrote Mueller.
“The key findings and recommendations of this report must be made public, so we can glean any and all lessons from this incident,” he added. “The American people and specifically the Fort Hood community in Texas have the right to know.”
Thirteen were killed and 29 wounded on Nov. 5, 2009, when Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army psychiatrist, reportedly opened fire at the base. Hasan, an Islamic extremist, could receive the death penalty; his trial is scheduled to begin Aug. 20.
“Our government failed the brave Americans who were killed and wounded at Fort Hood that day,” Cornyn wrote. “The devastation inflicted on them was preventable, and we must make it a high priority to ascertain exactly where the system broke down and ensure it does not happen again.”
I am a Texas resident and I agree wholeheartedly with Senator Cornyn.
Get on with justice for this killer. Does not matter to me what his reason was or what his religious preferences are. This person, and I hesitate to call him a Military Officer because I am one and he has betrayed all manners of military brotherhoods I can think of. Get on with his trial, if he will not shave , tie him up and shave him ( he is still in the military and can be made to comply ), if he will not cooperate in or with the trial then send him out of the court room, proceed with the trial and let’s give this murderer what he deserves…a fair trial and then a rope and scaffold. Let’s get it going, he has stalled justice long enough! He can explain to his maker why he took their lives unjustly.
This is an obvious, Muslim Jihadist attack. Inspired by the Koran and carried out for religious purposes. Captain Hasan,s business card titled him a soldier of Allah. It,s time, to call a spade, what it is ,and deal with it. We have a problem when we can,t even define the enemy of our civilization, because of political correctness.. It is common sense, We need to kill these people, before they kill more of us. And destroy their civilization before they destroy ours.