Representative Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) talked about the Fort Hood gunmen.
Yesterday Rachel Maddow reported on the recent comments of Rep. Pete Hoekstra who told the world that the Fort Hood shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, had email contacts with a radical Yemeni cleric named Anwar al-Aulaqi. Maddow questioned whether al-Aulaqi knew his email was being monitored before Hoekstra made such statements.
Rep. Hoekstra is the ranking Republican member of the House Intelligence Committee and so it is possible he was told about the emails in a classified briefing only to then leak the information while trying to frame the Fort Hood shootings as a terrorist attack. Maddow's staff contacted Hoekstra's office who directed her staff to another member's office. A Republican spokesperson then told Maddow that they assumed al-Aulaqi knew he was being monitored but they could not confirm.
This is the kind of story that could die quickly or blow up to become a nightmare for Republicans and Hoekstra. The NSA or CIA could provide some cover for Hoekstra by stating that al-Aulaqi did in fact know he was being monitored before Hoekstra's statements. On the other hand if an intelligence official comes out to say that al-Aulaqi may not have known he was being monitored, or that Hoekstra leaked classified information, then this story could be huge in the coming weeks. The purposeful leaking of classified information may draw a censure or worse from the House of Representatives.
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Is this Maddcow guy the same one who said the US Constitution did not have a Preamble?
newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/11/06/maddow-wrongly-claims-constitution-doesnt-have-preamble
"JOHN BOEHNER (R-OHIO.): This is my copy of the Constitution. And I'm gonna stand here with our Founding Fathers who wrote in the Preamble, "We hold these truths to be self-evident..."
(END VIDEOTAPE):
MADDOW (waving hands): Nnn, Constitution doesn't have a Preamble. Not. Nope. Stop it. That would be the Declaration of Independence. Ooh."
And why am I not surprised at Maddcow standing up for a terrorist and not for the US! Just like other libs have done regarding this story. It is telling of who's side the leftists are on.
Oh, and mosr heard of these emails BEFORE Hoekstra made his statement. But since when do bother to look at the truth?
You may call me "terrorist" as well then since I have also communicated with this gentle caring man. Leave it to the mainstream news to make a huge deal out of soemthing that does not exist.
STOP CALLING HIM A RADICAL CLERIC!
No surprise that Maddow would be concerned about Republicans at a time like this!
OoooPP "Deletions are us" is on the menu again tonite.
new media, Maddow at least was speaking from faulty memory. Boehner was SUPPOSEDLY reading the Preamble - but his WORDS are from the Declaration of Independence, as Maddow correctly pointed out.
Of course, such a leak is only 'treason' when the NY Times publishes it - right?
RE:Gigi,jaime
Don’t you two have anything better to do then comment on Ryan articles? I’ll tell you what you two ladies of the night, go and fend for your 18 kids combine and stop posting,.. like your comments matter…
taxexemptgod:
Funny how you libs are always going after conservatives that 'don't matter'!
taxexemptgod:
That 'ladies of the night....18 kids remark wasn't sexist was it, because I know that's against your religion!
We have a 'god' that is a sexist AND a hypocrite pointer-outer! That was worth staying up late for.. huh, Jaime?
taxexemptgod:
Sugar boobs!
Ryan, he called us 'sugar boobs'! That is a bad name. I've never heard it before, but it's a bad name! That is officially name calling! That's against the rules!
Really, taxexemptgod!
We attack about the issues, you counter-attack with personal sexist insults! That's what libs do, but we're not scared! and neither is Sarah Palin!....good try, though.
Gigi is definately a girls name, but I believe Jaime never said one way or the other! You are sexist and presumptuous!
RE:Gigi,jaime
Isn’t the library closed? How do you have access to a computer?
Jaime:
taxexemptgod is a professional comedian....he said so himself!
Boy cant you read? I said professional comedy writer not comedian.. Can't you ladies stop doing your tricks and pay attention?
Jaime:
taxexemptgod is a 'comedy writer' How do I know? Because he told me! I don't want to tell him, but would you break it to him that sexist hatemongering isn't considered funny anymore?
What kind of parents would name their son "Rachel", that's a woman's name.
LGR says:
You may call me "terrorist" as well then since I have also communicated with this gentle caring man. Leave it to the mainstream news to make a huge deal out of soemthing that does not exist.
STOP CALLING HIM A RADICAL CLERIC!
YES then YOU TOO are a radical!
that Imam is a TERRORIST recruiter. He should be fed to the pigs!
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