FBI Could Have Stopped Ft. Hood Massacre

WASHINGTON — Months before Army Maj. Nidal Hasan allegedly carried out the Fort Hood massacre, the FBI inexplicably conducted only a cursory investigation into evidence that the radicalized American-born Muslim was frequently contacting an al-Qaida affiliated terrorist overseas, a yearlong Senate investigation concluded Thursday. The failure of the nation's premier law enforcement agency to delve into the actions and hardening attitudes of the 40-year-old Army-trained psychiatrist contributed to missed opportunities to prevent the bloody rampage on Nov. 5, 2009, that killed 13 and wounded 32 others, Senate investigators found. Hasan's deepening commitment to radical Islamic extremism and his ties to a known al-Qaida affiliate should have prompted the Army to discharge him