Report: Fort Hood massacre could have been prevented
An exhaustive inquiry by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs has concluded that the Fort Hood massacre allegedly carried out by Army Maj. Nidal Hasan could have — and should have - been prevented, a year-long report released Thursday shows.
The Senate committee found the FBI and the Army failed to act on evidence “in plain sight” that the 40-year-old Army psychiatrist was communicating with radical Islamic cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen and becoming an increasingly radicalized Muslim during his medical training at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.