nationalsecuritylaw “A Ticking Time Bomb: Counterterrorism Lessons from the U.S. Government’s Failure to Prevent the Fort Hood Attack” Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (Feb. 3, 2011)

* "A Ticking Time Bomb: Counterterrorism Lessons from the U.S. Government’s Failure to Prevent the Fort Hood Attack" Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (Feb. 3, 2011)

The Senate HSGA Committee has completed its investigation of the government’s handling of information relating to Major Nidal Hasan prior to the Fort Hood attack on November 5, 2009. The report was released today, and is available here. The report proceeds in three parts. Part I is background relating to the aims of the investigation and to the homegrown radicalization issue. Part II is a review of what the government knew prior to the attack and how that information was handled. Part III provides recommendations concerning DOD, FBI, and interagency practices. The key findings and recommendations are posted in an Annex at the end of the document.

By Robert M. Chesney

Robert M. Chesney is Charles I. Francis Professor in Law at UT-Austin School of Law. Chesney is a national security law specialist, with a particular interest in problems associated with terrorism. Professor Chesney recently served in the Justice Department in connection with the Detainee Policy Task Force created by Executive Order 13493. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security, a senior editor for the Journal of National Security Law & Policy, an associate member of the Intelligence Science Board, a non-resident senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the American Law Institute. Professor Chesney has published extensively on topics ranging from detention and prosecution in the counterterrorism context to the states secrets privilege. He served previously as chair of the Section on National Security Law of the Association of American Law Schools and as editor of the National Security Law Report (published by the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security). His upcoming projects include two books under contract with Oxford University Press, one concerning the evolution of detention law and policy and the other examining the judicial role in national security affairs.

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