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Tom Carper: “The Department of Defense and the FBI collectively had sufficient information to have detected Major Hasan's…”

On the recordMarch 29, 2011
The Department of Defense and the FBI collectively had sufficient information to have detected Major Hasan's radicalization to violent Islamist extremism, but that the Department of Defense and the FBI failed to act effectively together on the many red flags signaling that he had become a potential threat.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Tom Carper criticizes the failure of agencies to act on warning signs regarding Major Hasan.

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