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The FBI and the Pentagon are responsible for a "string of failures" in the way they attempted to track a disgruntled Army major in the years before he allegedly opened fire at a crowded Ft. Hood, Texas, deployment center in the worst domestic terror ambush since the attacks of September 2001, two key Senate leaders concluded Thursday.
In addition, Army supervisors repeatedly referred to Maj. Nidal Hasan as a "ticking time bomb," and FBI agents and the military knew he had become radicalized under the influence of a violent Islamist extremist. Yet the agents never arrested him, and his military superiors never disciplined or furloughed him out of the Army.
"The Ft. Hood massacre should have been prevented," said Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), who along with Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) conducted the investigation into the November 2009 shooting on behalf of the Senate Homeland Security Committee.