Pending a series of legislative, Army, and Defense Department investigations into the rampage, the Obama administration has resisted the “terror” label. And one new poll shows slightly more Americans agreeing that the Fort Hood shooting was a “killing spree” rather than “an act of terrorism.”
But some US lawmakers see the terrorism analogy as fundamentally important to the inquiry ”” not just into Hasan’s motivations, but to national security generally in the Fort Hood aftermath.
At Senate hearings this week, some witnesses testified that “political correctness” undermined efforts to pinpoint Hasan and neutralize him before the shooting.
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CSM: Fort Hood shooting splits America over Islamic terror motive
Pending a series of legislative, Army, and Defense Department investigations into the rampage, the Obama administration has resisted the “terror” label. And one new poll shows slightly more Americans agreeing that the Fort Hood shooting was a “killing spree” rather than “an act of terrorism.”
But some US lawmakers see the terrorism analogy as fundamentally important to the inquiry ”” not just into Hasan’s motivations, but to national security generally in the Fort Hood aftermath.
At Senate hearings this week, some witnesses testified that “political correctness” undermined efforts to pinpoint Hasan and neutralize him before the shooting.
Read it all.