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| Senate panel notes 'red flags galore' in Fort Hood incident |
| By usatoday.com |
| Published: 11/20/2009 |
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WASHINGTON — Military and FBI officials appeared to miss numerous warning signs in the months leading up to the Nov. 5 killings of 13 people at Fort Hood in Texas, lawmakers said Thursday in the first congressional hearing into the incident. The hearing by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee kicked off a congressional push to examine laws and policies dealing with suspicious troops. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, the committee's top Republican, said the military and the FBI failed to follow "red flags galore" about the accused killer, Maj. Nidal Hasan, 39. The Army psychiatrist is charged with 13 counts of murder. "It appears we did have a failure to share critical information and a failure to ask critical questions," Collins said. "It reminds me very much of the siloed information that was available throughout the federal government in different agencies before 9/11." Read More. |
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