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From WND "Shooter advised Obama transition"
« on: November 06, 2009, 11:04:42 PM »
Ok if this is proven true, who gets "Fostered"?

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Posted: November 06, 2009
9:21 am Eastern


By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2009 WorldNetDaily



NEW YORK – Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged shooter in yesterday's massacre at Fort Hood, played a homeland security advisory role in President Barack Obama's transition into the White House, according to a key university policy institute document.

The Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University published a document May 19, entitled "Thinking Anew – Security Priorities for the Next Administration: Proceedings Report of the HSPI Presidential Transition Task Force, April 2008 – January 2009," in which Hasan of the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine is listed on page 29 of the document as a Task Force Event Participant.

Hasan received his medical degree from the military's Uniformed Services University School in Bethesda, Md., in 2001.

Noting that the Obama administration transition was proceeding, the GWU Homeland Security Policy Institute report described on the first page the role of the Presidential Transition Task Force as including "representatives from past Administrations, State government, Fortune 500 companies, academia, research institutions and non-governmental organizations with global reach."

While the GWU task force participants included several members of government, including representatives of the Department of Justice and the U.S Department of Homeland Security, there is no indication in the document that the group played any formal role in the official Obama transition, other than to serve in a university-based advisory capacity.

Daniel Kaniewski, deputy director of the Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University affirmed to WND in a telephone interview this morning that the Nidal Hasan listed as attending the meetings of the HSPI Presidential Transition Task Force was the same person as the alleged shooter in the Fort Hood massacre.

Kaniewski said Hasan attended the meetings in his capacity as a member of the faculty of the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine, not as a member of the HSPI Presidential Task Force.

Kaniewski believed Hasan applied on the institute's website to attend the meeting and was accepted because of his professional credentials.

Kaniewski could not tell WND whether or not Hasan made comments from the audience that influenced the task force recommendations or not.

He further confirmed Hasan had attended several meetings held by the Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University and that the institute is currently searching conference records to see if it is possible to determine what additional institute conferences he attended.


     


According to the "About Us" section of the GWU Homeland Security Policy Institute, the group is a "nonpartisan 'think and do' tank whose mission is to build bridges between theory and practice to advance homeland security through an interdisciplinary approach."

The Homeland Security Policy Institute is led by Frank J Cilluffo, who formerly served in the White House as special assistant to President Bush for homeland security, and by Kaniewski, who formerly served in the White House as special assistant to President Bush for homeland security and senior director for response policy.

"Muslims should stand up and fight the aggressor," Hasan said about America before he and possibly other Muslim soldiers at Fort Hood shot 43 fellow soldiers, killing 13.

"He said Muslims had a right to attack" the U.S., said Col. Terry Lee, who worked with Hasan at the Texas post, where the devout Sunni Muslim refused deployment. "He said Muslims shouldn't be fighting Muslims," he added. "He was very clear on that."

According to an explosive new book, "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America," Hasan is just the tip of a jihadist Fifth Column operating within the ranks of the U.S. military – which is too blinded by political correctness to see the threat.


Quoting from a classified military briefing, "Muslim Mafia" reveals that this Fifth Column has penetrated "every branch of the U.S. military." The Islamist enemy has even infiltrated the al-Qaida detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Shortly after this story was posted, the Huffington Post ran a piece claiming WND was attempting to "smear" President Obama by naming him "as the man who guided Nidal Malik Hasan to his murderous rampage at Ft. Hood yesterday."

However, Hasan is being reported as a participant in the GWU Homeland Security Policy Institute's Presidential Transition Task Force, not as a member, noting the group was a university think-tank, not part of the Obama administration official transition team.

Further, the institute's deputy director is quoted saying he is unable to say if Hasan made any input to the group's final recommendations.

Other participants in the task force included many members of congressional staff  who work with both the House and Senate homeland security committees, as well as staff from the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice.

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Re: From WND "Shooter advised Obama transition"
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2009, 05:50:04 AM »
Sorry, but I gave up on World Nut Daily's over-the-top crap a long time ago.  They remind me of Ronulans--some of what they say makes sense, but it's the other part that convinces you they're just batshit crazy.
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Re: From WND "Shooter advised Obama transition"
« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2009, 06:31:15 AM »
Quote from: NHSparky on November 07, 2009, 05:50:04 AM
Sorry, but I gave up on World Nut Daily's over-the-top crap a long time ago.  They remind me of Ronulans--some of what they say makes sense, but it's the other part that convinces you they're just batshit crazy.

I get batshit crazy from the left all the time....I, myself, like to balance it with a little batshit crazy from the right occassionally. Somewhere in the middle is the truth.
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Re: From WND "Shooter advised Obama transition"
« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2009, 06:55:24 AM »
Nope, doesn't work that way.  Batshit crazy is still batshit crazy, no matter where it comes from, and all you get when you mix the two is double batshit crazy.
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Re: From WND "Shooter advised Obama transition"
« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2009, 06:58:49 AM »
WND's stories often originate from credible sources. In this document,, on page 29 of the actual document (page 32 according to my Adobe PDF Reader) Nidal Hasan is listed as a participant. http://www.gwumc.edu/hspi/old/PTTF_ProceedingsReport_05.19.09.pdf  While I won't say he actually "advised" 0bama, he did have a hand in the Homeland Security Policy Institute task force.

To the OP: Please include substantiating links in your articles.
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Re: From WND "Shooter advised Obama transition"
« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2009, 07:06:57 AM »
Sorry, but the spin gets a little dizzy.  And they (WND) put out just enough BS to make them a non-credible source in my book.  I attended Western States Relay Conference a couple of years ago.  Does that somehow mean I'm "advising" people how to build and maintain the electric grid?

Unless someone can show me active participation where the guy was actually giving advice, color me skeptical, and it doesn't serve the purpose.
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