WASHINGTON | The Pentagon said Thursday it will scour its procedures for identifying volatile soldiers in the ranks following the Fort Hood shooting rampage and lapses that might allow others to slip through bureaucratic cracks. “It is prudent to determine immediately whether there are internal weaknesses or procedural shortcomings in the department that could make us vulnerable,”...
Sarah Palin's tour to promote her new memoir will include a stop at Fort Hood to benefit the victims of the shooting rampage and their families. An updated schedule for the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee and former Alaska governor includes a Dec. 4...
FORT HOOD, Texas -- The soldier from Bridgewater who was wounded in the Fort Hood shooting said in an interview with My9 he was shot in the leg while already on the ground with bullet wounds. Alan Carroll, 20, who...
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon said Thursday it will scour its procedures for identifying volatile soldiers hidden in the ranks following the Fort Hood shooting rampage and lapses that might allow others to slip through bureaucratic cracks."It is prudent ...
The Pentagon is launching an urgent review of whether military procedures hinder the identification of service members who pose a threat to their fellow troops.
Several lawmakers and terror experts at Senate hearings on the Fort Hood shooting Thursday called the incident a terrorist attack, and warned of the danger of homegrown jihad.
A former White House security adviser has alleged that the Muslim army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 at a Texas military base may not have been investigated because of "political correctness." Frances Fragos Townsend, a Homeland Security adviser to president George W. Bush told US lawmakers she was worried that the chief suspect, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, was not properly investigated...
As a Senate Committee began the first hearing into the shooting attack at Fort Hood, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced the launch of a Pentagon review of the circumstances around the shootings. Judy Woodruff speaks with two reporters for an update.
The Pentagon said Thursday it will scour its procedures for identifying volatile soldiers hidden in the ranks following the Fort Hood shooting rampage and lapses that might allow others to slip through bureaucratic cracks.
Some on the right, such as Sarah Palin, John McCain, and various conservative commentators, have quickly jumped to the conclusion that the Fort Hood shootings were an act of terrorism. But according to the internals of a new CNN poll that just landed in the old in box, the American people aren’t prepared [...]
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