by Maggie at Maggie’s Notebook Our world is upside-down. Democratic leaders say they do not share the concerns of the Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee that Nidal Hasan’s red flags were, perhaps, ignored. Pete Hoekstra Just a few short months ago, Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the CIA liars, offered no proof and then refused to talk [...]
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) at the Heritage Foundation over a year ago, spoke on the importance of recognizing the threat of terrorism, but Democrat leadership told him "the threat is not real." In the short video below, Hoekstra is speaking in February 2008 about the importance of renewing FISA, which we did in July 2008. Nevertheless, just 1-1/2 years ago, Democrats believed there is no real...
President Obama continues to urge Americans not to jump to conclusions when it come to the Fort Hood Islamist mass murderer Major Nidal Malik Hasan. At the same time the administration is trying to prevent informed conclusions from being developed. So far most of the information revealed about Hasan have been outed through anonymous leaks. For example reports of his Jihadist speeches to doctors at...
Pete Hoekstra, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, released a statement this morning calling for the heads of all relevant US intelligence agencies to preserve all intelligence related to the case of Nidal Malik Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter....
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) is blasting President Obama for withholding from the Congressional intelligence committees information on the Fort Hood killings suspect, while at the same time acknowledging the leaders of those panels -- including Hoekstra himself -- have indeed...
The ranking Republican on the House Intellgence Committee has accused the Obama administration of refusing to release "critical" information about the Ft. Hood Army Base shooting to Congress and to the public: Rep. Pete Hoekstra, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, announced Monday that he's asked the heads of the FBI, NSA and CIA to "preserve" all documents...
Democrats accuse Rep. Pete Hoekstra of playing politics with the Fort Hood investigation. (Freddie Lee/Fox News via Getty Images). By Ben Pershing The investigation into last week's deadly shooting at Fort Hood has driven a sharp split between Democrats and Republicans on the House intelligence committee, with each side drawing vastly different conclusions from the same information. Rep. Pete Hoekstra...
Ft. Hood had a memorial service today for its fallen and speculation continues regarding Major Hassan's motives: The Army psychiatrist is believed to have acted alone despite repeated communications -- intercepted by authorities -- with a radical imam overseas, U.S. officials said Monday. The FBI will conduct an internal review to see whether it mishandled early information about the man accused in...
Apparently Italy knows a war crime when they see it: Italy Convicts 23 Americans for C.I.A. Renditions In a landmark ruling, an Italian judge on Wednesday convicted a base chief for the Central Intelligence Agency and 22 other Americans, almost all C.I.A. operatives, of kidnapping a Muslim cleric from the streets of Milan in 2003. [...] In June, Il Giornale, a newspaper owned by the brother of Mr....
WASHINGTON — Nearly a year before Maj. Nidal Hasan allegedly went on a shooting rampage at the Fort Hood army post in Texas, terrorism investigators conducted an "assessment" of him before deciding he did not pose a threat.After the shooting, the FBI is doing a new assessment — of its own conduct.The Army psychiatrist is thought to have acted alone despite repeated communications...
Amid new allegations that the Obama administration is withholding “critical information” concerning the murders at Fort Hood, ranking Republican Pete Hoekstra is demanding the CIA and the FBI release full details on what he calls “a terrorism attack” at our military facility in Texas. Why a congressman would have to insist the government inform the governed of such [...]
It's always nice when AC pops up in LA, the lighting is better, the make up artist better and his program even can be a little better. During the tease Larry King tried to get Anderson Cooper to reveal what he was doing on the West Coast. AC isn't talking. Drew Griffin was first up and with a look at the Ft. Hood assassin and also why the FBI dropped its investigation, earlier this year, of the shooter....
House intelligence committee chair Silvestre Reyes (D-TX) made a thinly veiled swipe at his GOP counterpart today over comments made by Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) criticizing the Obama Administration's handling of information about the Fort Hood shootings. As we told you...
Rep. Pete Hoekstra, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, announced Monday that he's asked the heads of the FBI, NSA and CIA to "preserve" all documents and material connected to the attack at Fort Hood last week that killed 13 and injured 29.
General Motors Co. CEO Fritz Henderson had told lawmakers that it was close to announcing it plans to restore a limited number of dealer franchises that were mistakenly terminated but would not provide compensation to any dealers, according to Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich.