US Intelligence Fails Again: New York Christmas Attack: No One Rang the Bell

Katherine Herridge is on Fox reporting a possible second terrorist attack planned on Christmas Day to coincide with Underpants Bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attack, which barely failed. An unnamed official said "[We] were aware of something for Christmas and didn't ring the bell...didn't warn the airlines, didn't warn everyone that, "hey, we were made aware of this so just tighten up. And look what happened. Obama is quoted saying we had information on Abdulmutallab's attack but "our intelligence community failed" to "connect the dots." Look how our government failed our soldiers at Ft. Hood. The trail to terrorism was hot and everyone had the actual messages from Nidal Hasan to Anwar al-Alwalki before he committed jihad. What's wrong with this miserable, irresponsible government?

Ft. Hood Massacre

An explosive devise was to be moved from East Africa to London to New York to be used perhaps in a restaurant or other busy venue bombing. The devise would have been assembled in New York City.

Someone named "Mohammed" is involved. Ya, sure! Fox News says "intelligence from overseas three weeks earlier indicating that a plot targeting New York City on the same day may have been in the works, according to an FBI report obtained by Fox News."

The final target of the attack was not known, but extremist members had allegedly discussed restaurants and night clubs located in New York City," the FBI's assistant legal attache in London wrote in a threat report dated Dec. 4, 2009. "The extremists allegedly discussed conducting the attack on 25 December, to coincide with the Christmas holiday."

The report, sent to U.S. and British counterterrorism officials, warned that "extremists allegedly planned to conduct a test run" that evening, hiding components for an improvised explosive device in a shipment of khat, a plant often chewed like tobacco that has become a tradition for many in East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

The FBI is warning these reports might be a "coincidence," and not to draw conclusions. "Hundreds" of threat reports come in for the month of December each year - 83,000 to the FBI each year. Obama said "The U.S. government had sufficient information to have uncovered this plot and potentially disrupt the Christmas Day attack. But our intelligence community failed to connect those dots."

Walter Reed Army Officers Disciplined in Ft. Hood Shootings

Six officers who supervised Ft. Hood shooter, Nidal Hasan, will be disciplined. Most of the six are from the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

The six are as yet unnamed, and as many as eight could ultimately receive a reprimand.

The officials said that as many as eight officers could ultimately be censured over Hasan, mostly with letters of reprimand that effectively end their military careers.

In this day of outrageous and extreme "Military P.C.," I hope these officers deserve "career ending" discipline. I hope these men are not scapegoats. Were they told that disciplining Hasan was profiling? Were they told their careers would end if they did speak-out against him? The way the top-brass Military have handled this, I have no confidence that there will be diligent policy to root-out the remaining Hasan's.

Nidal Hassans Commanding Officers Failed: Hasan Security Clearance Not Investigated: Terrorism not Considered in Report

Separate investigations of the fourteen Fort Hood murders by Muslim officer, Major Nidal Hasan, found a lack of "communication" among commanding officers, concerning "disaffected individuals," and the killer's top-level security clearance not properly investigated. Had it been investigated, Hasan's clearance would have been revoked. The November 5, 2009 murders were the deadliest in the history of a U.S. military base - nevertheless, the reports did not consider whether or not the attack was "terrorism!"

This Breitbart report says that Hasan "showed no signs of being violent or a threat," but the military knew he was corresponding with a radical iman in Yemen. If that is not a threat, what is? So Hasan did not warn anyone that sooner or later he would commit jihad. They ignored the radical iman - all in an effort to show no prejudice toward Islam. Fourteen died so that the Army would not offend Muslims.

The reports show that mid-level officers "overlooked or failed" to be concerned with "lax work habits, and his fixation on religion. They found that he was lazy, unkempt, late to duty, obsessed with religion and failed military fitness requirements. But Hasan was promoted to the rank of Major anyway. Would any non-Islamic, disheveled and lazy soldier, who refused to show up for exams, be promoted to Captain or Major? The answer is "no."

According to two officials familiar with the case, as many as eight Army officers could face discipline for failing to do anything when Hasan displayed erratic behavior early in his military career. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because that information has not been publicly released. 

What if these "mid-level" officers directly over Hasan tried to bring attention to his bizarre behavior, and were reminded that Islam is the Religion of Peace. That is a likely scenario.
Read the words of Major Scott Moran in his report sent to the Credentials Committee at several military hospitals here. Hasan was promoted to Major anyway, and then scooted off to Fort Hood.

The Army tried to psych Hasan, and actually sent him to a university lecture series on Islam, the Middle East and terrorism - to try to tamp down his"growing preoccupation with religion and war." He made it known to his Walter Reed staff that he wanted to teach them about Islam. Instead, they sent him to Islam 101.

The best way to protect our soldiers is to teach them about the Koran - about all of the Koran, without deselecting the jihadist and "kill all the Jews" message. It won't take them long to recognize the motives of others like Nidal Hasan.

What red-blooded Army soldier would not be outraged serving side-by-side with Hasan? I simply cannot believe those in direct supervision of the man didn't make their concerns known.

I think the coming investigations will not go nearly high-enough up the ladder of command. Some mid-level officers will fall on their swords and their honor for their commanding officers, who perpetrated an enviroment of Muslim-appeasing military policy.