{"id":38578,"date":"2013-11-24T08:10:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T13:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38578"},"modified":"2013-11-24T08:11:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T13:11:08","slug":"army-thinks-about-classifying-fort-hood-shoting-as-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38578","title":{"rendered":"Army thinks about classifying Fort Hood shooting as &#8220;terror&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry920 sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/investigations\/Army-Considers-Reclassifying-Fort-Hood-Shooting-Pending-Review-233087321.html\">NBC News<\/a> which reports that the Army may reconsider whether or not the attack on soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas was actually a terrorist attack;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a letter dated Nov. 1 to South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson, U.S.  Army Secretary John McHugh said, \u201cthe intelligence community considers Major Hasan to be a &#8216;homegrown violent extremist&#8217; &#8211; a person who may engage in ideologically &#8211; motivated terrorist activities \u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shawn Manning was shot six times by Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who\u2019s been sentenced to death for gunning down 32 people and killing 13 at Fort Hood in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>NBC 5 Investigates shared the letter with Manning who said, \u201cit&#8217;s the closest that the Secretary of the Army, Department of Defense, has gotten to saying this is an act of terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, the secretary said Hasan&#8217;s victims are not entitled to Purple Hearts because the Department of Defense has not been able to establish Hasan was acting at the direction of a foreign terrorist organization.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the main body of the letter from McHugh to Representative Joe Wilson;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=38579\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38579\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/McHugh-letter-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"McHugh letter\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/McHugh-letter-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/McHugh-letter-500x285.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/McHugh-letter.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, well, the Army should ask the FBI if Hasan was working under the direction of terrorists, and this time they should listen to the FBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry920 sends us a link to NBC News which reports that the Army may reconsider whether &hellip; <a title=\"Army thinks about classifying Fort Hood shooting as &#8220;terror&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38578\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Army thinks about classifying Fort Hood shooting as &#8220;terror&#8221;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-army","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}