George Washington University issued official statement distancing the institution from the terrorist who killed 13 and an unborn baby at Fort Hood military base. The document is revealing that Nidal Hasan attended not one but multiple meetings of the Homeland Security Policy Institute task force that advised the President Obama’s transition team.
WASHINGTON — In his capacity as Disaster & Preventive Psychiatry Fellow at the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine, Nidal Hasan registered (“RSVP’d”) to attend as an audience member a number of Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI) events in the period June 2008 to February 2009. All of these events were open to the public. At no time has Nidal Hasan been affiliated with HSPI or The George Washington University
As Right Pundits previously reported Hasan was listed on page 29 of the final document of the Homeland Security Policy Institute as “Nidal Hasan, Uniformed Services University School of Medicine”. The document which you can access here includes a photo of Hasan /page 12/ in his military uniform attending the meeting on December 3, 2008 on a discussion titled “International Strategy: Re-Invigorating Our Role in the World.”
Video of Hasan attending the May 19, 2009 Homeland Security Institute discussion is also available. Judging from the official statement of the Institute Hasan was a participant from June 2008 until February 2009.
The task force in which Nidal Hasan participated was the first to promote the politically correct term of “man-made disaster” instead of the term “terrorist”. The Think Anew Task force recommendation to the President Obama was:
Recommendations
The President should:
employ a strategy that amplifies voices within the Muslim world that seek to counter radicalization and recruitment, and that exercises care regarding the use of lexicon;
Ironically Nidal Hassan who was supposed to be a poster child of this strategy, turned to be a proof that political correctness is not a successful weapon against the Islamic terrorists - it just enables them.
November 17th, 2009 at 7:18 am
Wait, so this guy was a registered audience member to an event open to the public? So what? Does anybody seriously see a connection to Obama here?
I bet Tim McVeigh watched a Republican presidential press conference or two on TV in his day. Does that make the Oklahoma City attacks somehow related to Reagan or Bush?
November 17th, 2009 at 7:43 am
He was so registered he was published in the final document which advised Obama to call terrorists “man-made disasters” - the very policy of political correctness that prevented the authorities to out Hasan.
November 17th, 2009 at 8:06 am
the very policy of political correctness that prevented the authorities to out Hasan.
Do you have any evidence to support that claim? My guess is whatever policies recommended to Obama by HSI haven’t even been enacted yet. That makes it a bit tough to blame those policies on this shooting.
At any rate, at the very worst this proves that Obama may have been given some biased advice. It absolutely doesn’t connect him to the shooting itself in any meaningful way.
November 17th, 2009 at 8:21 am
Rhayader, the evidence will be presented in the Congressional hearings - coming soon.
The policies of lexicon altering when talking about Islamic Terrorists are well implemented. The president is dancing all around to avoid the term “terrorist” to Hassan’s case. So is the lame stream media. Obama is spinning and twisting so hard to avoid “terrorist” label for Hasan - if BO was a dancer he would be more ridiculous then Tom Daley on Dancing with the Stars.
November 17th, 2009 at 8:27 am
That stuff is all just tangential detail. Again, I don’t see any connection between Obama and this shooting, and to imply a connection using the “evidence” that Hasan attended meetings open to the public is more than a little disingenuous.
November 17th, 2009 at 8:34 am
I was fair to the Homeland Security Policy Institute and published their official position. Whether it is and acceptable - each of us may have different opinion. I expect Hasan’s participating in this influential forum to be investigated. he attended more then one meetings - did he influenced other people there? How did he learn about the forum? It is worth investigating.
November 17th, 2009 at 10:23 am
You seem to have left out a key fact: this commission was formed by and run by the BUSH administration as part of it’s transition program. Interesting you spun it to look like it was Obama’s doing when it was a BUSH commission
Perhaps you had a little agenda here
http://www.veteranstoday.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9315
November 17th, 2009 at 10:58 am
Being open to the public is not the same as being an invited participant. The information here states he ‘rsvp’d’ so he was an active participant in the discussion. He was not an audience member. He has signed on to the final works, again, not the acts of an audience member.
November 17th, 2009 at 11:03 am
He was not an audience member.
Uhh, wrong. An audience member is exactly what he was. You can be invited to attend a conference without being asked to present. Happens all the time.
November 17th, 2009 at 11:06 am
#7 Joseph: You seem to overlook the fact it was an Obama Admin that came up with the ‘new’ verbage via this venue…’Man made disaster.’ Not the Bush Admin.
Do you have an agenda here?
November 17th, 2009 at 11:17 am
then he wouldn’t have had to rsvp. happens all the time.
you should remove your blinders, if you are able.
November 17th, 2009 at 11:29 am
then he wouldn’t have had to rsvp. happens all the time.
If he was an invited attendee, then yes an RSVP would be expected. In fact, every professional conference I’ve ever attended — as nothing more than an audience member — has asked for some sort of confirmation that I’ll be attending. It only makes sense from an event planning perspective. Are you accusing the HSPI of lying about the nature of his involvement?
Also, what exactly am I blind to? Are you honestly claiming that Obama was somehow directly involved in this shooting?
November 17th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Joseph B, it was not a Bush commission - before you blame everything on Bush - take deep breath and count to ten. Then click on the link to the document I generously provided for you. It was a non-partisan task force that included people from former administrations /plural/ including the Uniform Services Nidal Hasan. The goal was to assist the transition to the next President /Obama/ in the issues of Homeland Security. Wise up!
November 17th, 2009 at 11:35 am
Rhayader - Hasan was in the audience - he had a chance to talk to all these influential people trying to come up with strategies to protect our Homeland. How did Hasan learn about the events? What was his agenda there? Who did he talk with there and what did he say? The man is a terrorist - investigation should take place on what was he doing so close to our Home security policy making.
November 17th, 2009 at 11:44 am
Beej, I agree. The task force document if which Hasan is listed as participant was the first to recommend the term “man made disaster” and urged the President to watch out for his lexicon about Muslim terrorists. It is in the text.
November 17th, 2009 at 11:46 am
I’m fine with investigating Hassan. Go for it. But this guy was a military professional. We shouldn’t be surprised to find out he was attending conferences relevant to his field. There were probably hundreds of other attendees with similar qualifications. His attendance in and of itself has no significance without additional information. It certainly doesn’t connect him to Obama in any way.
So go ahead and investigate his activities relating to this conference and everything else in his life. But don’t start connecting dots that aren’t there.
November 17th, 2009 at 11:50 am
This guy has a good take on the whole thing.
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-25466-DC-Independent-Examiner~y2009m11d16-Hasan-Participated-in-Presidential-Transition-Task-force-on-Homeland-Security
“While this is not entirely surprising, given Hasan’s former position in the Army, it raises significant questions about White House reluctance to release relevant records allegedly in its possession.”
“Meanwhile, Pete Hoekstra, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Subcommittee has accused the White House of withholding information it has on Hasan and has promised to launch an investigation into the Ft. Hood shootings. For its part, the White House is getting downright nasty, recently threatening a Democrat strategist not to appear on Fox News. Things just keep getting weirder and weirder.
One wonders if this wasn’t at least part of what the Administration has been trying to hide, if for no other reason than to avoid being erroneously associated with the shooter. Masters at the smear campaign, the Obama team, like all Democrats, know how damaging even mistaken associations can be. In fact they rely on it when smearing opponents. In this case they certainly don’t want to inadvertently be tied to the name.
And with good reason. The Obama administration seems more concerned with American perceptions of Muslims than in getting to the bottom of this case. President Obama’s first words following the attack were that we shouldn’t “jump to conclusions.” Homeland Security chief, Janet Napolitano’s were to reassure Muslims that DHS was doing everything it could to prevent an “anti-Muslim backlash,” not anything about this guy’s motives or connections. This is tantamount to a complete abdication of her responsibility for overseeing domestic security. She is a tongue chewing, babbling idiot. But General Casey took the cake for absolute out of control lunacy when he said:
Our diversity, not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength, and as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a tragedy, I think that’s worse.”
November 17th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Fort Hood jihadist was on Obama’s transition team…
The official spin is that The Homeland Security Policy Institute’s Presidential Transition Task Force was a “purely academic body and had nothing to do with Obama’s official Homeland Security transition team.” But it’s rather ironic that Departmen…
November 17th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
As usual, liberals miss the point when it comes to their own foolishness. A recent example of this is Nancy Pelosi claiming victory for the democrats the day after they lost two governor’s races of states that went for obama just one year earlier.
Rhayder, the article reads, “Ironically Nidal Hassan who was supposed to be a poster child of this strategy, turned to be a proof that political correctness is not a successful weapon against the Islamic terrorists - it just enables them.” Timothy McVeigh wasn’t supposed to be a poster child of anything and nobody was being politically correct about domestic terrorism at the time of McVeigh’s attack.
Meanwhile, has obama made a decision about Afghanistan yet? What a damn loser…..
November 18th, 2009 at 7:44 am
Fix the title on this piece of work, you loons. Hassan didn’t attend any Obama transition team meetings. He was an RSVP audience member at think tank events ….
You people are truly sick.
November 18th, 2009 at 7:57 am
Timothy McVeigh wasn’t supposed to be a poster child of anything and nobody was being politically correct about domestic terrorism at the time of McVeigh’s attack.
Uhh, that’s completely irrelevant. My point in referencing McVeigh was to say that just because he was exposed to the ideas of prominent politicians doesn’t mean those politicians were responsible for his actions. I didn’t say anything about a “poster child”.
Also, for what it’s worth, I see no evidence that anyone considered Hassan a “poster child” for anything. That was just a statement of opinion made by this post’s author, not a verifiable fact.
November 18th, 2009 at 8:37 am
Jack in Brighton, I am well, thank you.
Hasan RSVPd and attended multiple events of the New President’s transition team at the Homeland Security Policy Institute - which president happens to be Obama. You may run away from the truth all the way to China and the world beyond - or you can look at Fort Hood massacre and face the truth.
November 18th, 2009 at 9:17 am
So from your warped perspective the Homeland Security Policy Institute think tank = Obama transition team?!
… No, it is not. Just like hundreds of other think tanks it creates recommendation work product on various subjects for consideration by public and private interests.
Who, specifically, within the Obama administration are you suggesting actually read the HSPI report??
Are you suggesting Hassan impacted the content of the HSPI report recommendations?
Recommendations to get rid of lexicon like “war on terrorism” has been discussed since 9/11, and longer. It obscures the true understanding of those who wish us harm and their individual motivations, and by extension how to best to defeat them. Rule #1: Know your enemy and his motivations.
Instead such lexicon is used as an abstraction label useful for political manipulation of opinion.
I find the intentional leaps of logic advanced by people like you disgusting, divisive, and harmful to the education of the American public concerning the critical issues of our time.
November 18th, 2009 at 9:19 am
“, for what it’s worth, I see no evidence that anyone considered Hassan a “poster child” for anything. ”
You cant be serious.
I’ll be the first person as part of that evidence if you like.
And liberal PC bullsht hadnt taken such a role in all this there would of been wanted posters of him everywhere.
November 18th, 2009 at 9:23 am
I’ll be the first person as part of that evidence if you like.
Huh? Did you become part of the Obama administration at some point?