Fort Hood review will call for FBI policy changes

Undated photo of Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shootings / AP Photo/Bell County Sheriff's Department via The Temple Daily Telegram

(CBS/AP) An independent review of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting massacre will recommend 18 changes in FBI policies and protocol, according to a letter obtained by CBS News.

In the July 3 letter to Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., Judge William Webster, who was tapped by FBI Director Robert Mueller to lead the independent investigation of the shootings, said the final report will outline "18 recommendations for corrective and enhancing measures on matters ranging from FBI policies and operations to information systems infrastructure, review protocols, and training."

Webster said the report, which culls information from more than 50 formal interviews and 10,000 pages of documents, will address how the FBI and its Joint Terrorism Task Forces "handled and acted on counterterrorism intelligence before and after the shootings." Webster, a former FBI director, said the report would be handed over to Mueller by July 13.

Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 shooting rampage, faces the death penalty if convicted of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the shootings. The court-martial is to start Aug. 20 on the Texas Army post.

The case has drawn attention to U.S. intelligence lapses. Less than a month after the Fort Hood rampage, the Pentagon's top intelligence officer sent the White House a report detailing an earlier failure to connect the dots, CBS News correspondent David Martin reported in 2010.

According to that report, the terrorism task force responsible for determining whether Hasan posed a threat never saw the multiple e-mails he exchanged with that radical Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, whose communications were being monitored under a court ordered wiretap.

After the Washington task force decided Hasan was not dangerous, it never asked to see his subsequent communications with Awlaki.

None of the e-mails specifically mentioned Hasan's plans for a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, but because he was a member of the military the FBI showed them to a Pentagon investigator with the note "comm" written on it. To the FBI that meant "commissioned officer." The Pentagon investigator thought it meant "communication."

As a result, there were no red flags that an army officer was emailing a radical cleric suspected of being a talent spotter for al Qaeda.

[Birchwood-of-Truth]

Why isn't the truth told? Much like the Secret Service fiasco in Colombia, it was reported many FBI agents were requesting and receiving $45,000 illegally when in areas around the world, such as Afghanistan, etc.

Much like a 9/11 situation before it happened, the FBI knew of the compromising of our Unmanned Drone Program and electronics shipments to Mexico...... It seems now, as a result Iran now has one of our unmanned drones....many of these unmanned drones are now crashing as it is reported in the news... I've even handled some of the unmanned drone motherboard electronics.

There are many good FBI Agents but there are some that have caused many American lives and as long as their "badge is shiny", 10,000 will blindly follow the bad agents......... An Attorney in the United States has information of a secret report; documenting much that will make Wiki Leaks look like a nursery school story.....If a person is a threat to the FBI or if an agent has been paid off, the threat is simply indicted and then the Federal Government has a 98% conviction rate much like Germany in the 1930s.... CBS has my contact information I would be happy to give them the Attorney's name...But you may not see this again for the FBI will try to block any type of disclosure... I seek no fame or fortune from CBS....... You can Google: Brundige, Kelly, Martin Marietta, JPL, Mahmoud A., Beasley, JRod.... These are some of the names in the report.

As simple polygraph test properly done will tell much of an FBI Agent, but the agency will not clean itself............. Do you remember Aldrich Ames and the harm he did to the United States? The details of this report described above, if released may make Aldrich Ames look like a rookie.


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[Birchwood-of-Truth]

Why isn't the truth told? Much like the Secret Service fiasco in Colombia, it was reported many FBI agents were requesting $45,000 illegally when in areas around the world, such as Afghanistan, etc.

The FBI knew of the compromising of our Unmanned Drone Program and as a result Iran now has one of our unmanned drones....many of these unmanned drones are now crashing as it is reported in the news.

There are many good FBI Agents but there are some that have caused many American lives and as long as their "badge is shiny" 10,000 will blindly follow them......... An Attorney in the United States has information of a secret report; documenting much that will make Wiki Leaks look like a nursery school story.....If a person is a threat to the FBI or if an agent has been paid off the threat is simply indicted and then the Federal Government has a 98& conviction rate much like Germany in the 1930s.... NBC has my contact information I would be happy to give them the Attorney's name...But you may not see this again for the FBI will try to block any type of disclosure... I seek no fame or fortune from NBC.

[jsf14]

Abbreviations and acronyms often interfere with understanding. Something to remember for less important communications also.

[nojoy01]

Classic case of "culture clash", aka "failure to communicate". For the military the abbreviation of "commissioned officer" is "officer". The abbreviation for "communication" is "comm" or "comms" (plural). For the F.B. (we're here to help you) I. to use an abbreviation indicates a certain lackadaisical mindset instead of the sharp professionalism we have all come to expect from that agency. (Yes Virgina, this is sarcasm)

[Nocults]

First change;

When a guy, who is an officer, and a psychiatrist, tells you he is crazy.....................INVESTIGATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[John782011]

Agreed