Fort Hood Cover-Up: A Dozen Tales of Disinformation

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Fort Hood Cover-Up: A Dozen Tales of Disinformation
by Mark Ames | November 9, 2009 - 11:59am

I don't want to go too deep down the Fort Hood Rabbit Hole Of Weirdness, so I'm just going to get off my chest some of the incredibly weird shit that's being thrown around in the media to confuse us or throw us off. It's looking pretty clearly like there’s a cover-up in progress, and not a very professional cover-up either. But the sad thing is that all the confusion and bullshit thrown our way will probably succeed in its goal of steering the public away from whatever it is the military doesn’t want us to find out about the shooting massacre.

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1. A ridiculous story planted in London's Daily Telegraph makes Hasan out to be an old pal of the 9/11 terrorists. The Telegraph also reported that a mysterious Arab-looking visitor came to Hasan's apartment 2 days before the shooting, like something out of a bad TV show:

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2. NPR ran a story sourcing an unnamed Walter Reed psychiatrist (again, unnamed!) who claimed to be a colleague of Hasan's painting a shocking portrait of a Muslim terrorist: supposedly Hasan went ballistic on his fellow students during a lecture that was supposed to be about medical issues. Instead, according to NPR:

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3. The FBI claims that they were monitoring Hasan ever since they supposedly caught him praising suicide bombers 6 months ago. Yet they did nothing. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson explained why, using the same excuse Condi Rice used after 9/11:

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4. In spite of all of this in-your-face evidence that Hasan was the craziest jihadist this side of the Jordan River, and in spite of all of the gazillions of officers and colonels and colleagues going on the air saying that Hasan's radical Islamic extremism troubled them, nonetheless, according to the New York Times, "officials were not prepared to say whether the attack was the act of a lone and troubled man or connected to terrorist groups, foreign or domestic.” Hutchinson added yesterday in the same article,


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