Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison has been booked as a guest Sunday on Meet the Press, along with two Democratic senators, Majority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois and California Sen. Diane Feinstein, and with Connecticut independent Joe Lieberman, who chaired the first open hearing regarding the Fort Hood shootings, on Thursday.
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The following is a transcript of the evaluation of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan by the director of his Psychiatry Residency Program. It was obtained by NPR. The director notes some obvious and troubling deficiencies about Hasan, but then approves his receiving his credentials. He [...]
Sarah Palin, the 2008 vice presidential nominee and former Alasa governor, tells Fox News' Sean Hannity that she views the Fort Hood attack as an act of terrorism.
"I certainly do," she told the conservative talker in an interview' [...]
Texas Sen. John Cornyn has just released a letter to President Barack Obama, urging him to come right out and acknowledge that Maj. Nidal Hasan was likely "compelled by a fanatical religious ideology.
"If Islamist terrorism was the driving force behind the senseless violence at Fort Hood, as it seems to [...]
As he flew to Asia on Saturday, President Obama told the media in Alaska that he opposes a congressional investigation into the Fort Hood massacre, saying that we must "resist the temptation to turn this tragic event into political theater." [...]
What Hasan unleashed at the shooting scene was tantamount to a teacher opening fire on the classroom, a' [...]
Shortly after 9/11, there was a lot of talk about how no one would ever hijack an American airliner ever again – not because of new security arrangements but because an alert citizenry was on the case: We were hip to their jive. The point appeared [...]
From the White House weblog:
With the investigation into the tragedy at Fort Hood ongoing, President Barack Obama used his weekly address to call for a careful and complete review of what happened before the tragedy.
Watch the video of the President’s address below or read the full text, as prepared for [...]
Michael Ramirez looks at the flags that the Army failed to notice surrounding the Fort Hood shooter. [...] This tragedy “will have a long-lasting effect,” state Representative Sid Miller, Republican of Stephenville, told reporters two days after the incident. “This community is still reeling from the 1991 Luby’s shooting.”
I also remember that mass killing in Killeen at the Luby's back in 1991. Pretty horrendous. [...]
Military prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty for alleged Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who was formally charged Thursday with 13 counts of premeditated murder, according to a senior Army officer familiar with the matter.
The last execution of an active-duty serviceman took place [...]
One thing about this terrorist shooting at Fort Hood, is there can be sweet justice sometimes in one simple act. What I mean by this is this, generally Muslims, especially what I understand of this Terrorist is his views on women. He would not get pictures taken [...]
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison tells The Dallas Morning News that the Fort Hood shooter should face 14 murder charges, not just 13. The Army announced that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan will face one specification of murder for each casualty.
But as Hutchison points out, one of the soldiers killed in [...]
That Fort Hood memorial service forced President Barack Obama to delay his 10-day trip to Asia by a full day. He took off this morning. Thanks to the delay, he needed a pinch-hitter at a speech he was supposed to deliver in Singapore on Saturday morning to the Asia-Pacific Economic [...]
Fort Hood shooting suspect Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had been in contact with numerous Muslim extremists -- some of whom are under federal investigation -- before last week's rampage, two U.S. officials told The Washington Times on Wednesday.
Maj. Hasan made some of the [...]
