首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
If there’s a sensitive investigation into the flaws of crime fighters, the man the feds often call in to do the job is William H
If there’s a sensitive investigation into the flaws of crime fighters, the man the feds often call in to do the job is William H
admin
2012-02-24
22
问题
If there’s a sensitive investigation into the flaws of crime fighters, the man the feds often call in to do the job is William H. Webster. Over the decades, the former FBI and CIA chief has headed numerous high-profile investigations into public agencies, including the Los Angeles Police Department’s response to the 1992 Rodney King riots and the FBI’s failure to catch Soviet and Russian mole Robert Hanssen.
But the probe into whether the FBI mishandled information about Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who is charged with killing 13 people and wounding 32 at Fort Hood in Texas, could be Webster’s trickiest assignment yet. The Nov. 5 shootings have raised a host of nettlesome issues regarding Hasan and his contacts with Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical cleric in Yemen, and why the FBI decided not to raise the alarm about Hasan even though it had tracked his suspect communications. In the aftermath of the shootings, critics have raised questions not only about intelligence-sharing, but also about whether the U.S. Army psychiatrist successfully used the cloak of research as a smoke screen for his personal extremism and, perhaps, murderous intentions.
At the heart of the inquiry is the troublesome revelation that the FBI knew that Hasan, who became more religiously devout after his parents’ deaths, corresponded with al- Awlaki, an American-born imam who led a northern Virginia mosque where two of the Sept. 11 hijackers worshipped. After al-Awlaki departed the U.S. in 2002, eventually ending up in Yemen, his sermons and teachings—delivered in English—apparently became a source of inspiration for the Fort Dix six and some of the young men who eventually left the U.S. to join al-Shabaab, the Islamist group in Somalia.
E-mail surveillance turned up as many as 20 messages between al-Awlaki and Hasan, which an FBI-headed Joint Terrorism Task Force in Washington reviewed. At the time, the task force concluded that the correspondence matched Hasan’s research into the mind-set of Muslim soldiers who turn on their comrades and was insufficient evidence to launch an investigation. Separately, U.S. Army colleagues at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington have said they raised concerns with supervisors about Hasan, his statements about Islam and whether he was mentally stable or possibly even dangerous. The Army, however, did not share the information with the FBI.
It’s not yet clear how wide-ranging Webster’s probe will be, and opinions vary on its scope. Bill Burck, a former deputy counsel to President George W. Bush, said that while Webster’s previous probes tended to look for policy lapses or fault, this review may be more difficult. The review could go to the heart of assessing threats posed by radicalized Americans, who have rights that terrorists from outside the country do not. "That presents a very difficult set of questions about how do you balance the traditional law-enforcement approach to deal with those threats—which is typically how we’ve dealt with those things in the past—with the reality that you’re dealing with people that are much harder to deter," Burck says.
The FBI has already turned over to the White House a preliminary internal review of the agency’s actions before the shootings. Director Robert Mueller appointed Webster, who headed the FBI from 1978 until 1987 before becoming CIA director, to perform an open-ended, independent review of FBI policies, practices and actions preceding the incident. That will include a review of the initial findings as well as any additional issues that Webster has the discretion to take up.
In a statement, Mueller said Webster would have complete access to necessary information and resources that Webster would coordinate with existing Department of Defense probes. "It is essential to determine whether there are improvements to our current practices or other authorities that could make us all safer in the future," he said.
According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true about Hasan?
选项
A、He was mentally unstable.
B、He was a psychiatrist in the U.S. Army.
C、He kept in touch with a clergyman in Yemen.
D、He killed 13 people and wounded 32 at Fort Hoo
答案
A
解析
此题是事实题。由第四段可知,军队同事怀疑哈桑精神不稳定,但这并不一定是事实。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/tsiO777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
Jealousy’sPurposeGoodmorning,everyone.Today’slecturewillfocusonacommonpsychologicalproblem—jealousy.Evolutionar
Jealousy’sPurposeGoodmorning,everyone.Today’slecturewillfocusonacommonpsychologicalproblem—jealousy.Evolutionar
Threesubstancesprovidemorethan80percentoftheworld’senergyandover90percentofNorthAmerica’senergy:petroleum,na
IstoodatthewirefenceintheedgeofHilario’spastureand【M1】______watchedtheRussiansforlongtime,untilmostoftheo
Imagineachartthatbeginswhenmanfirstappearedontheplanetandtrackstheeconomicgrowthofsocietiesfromthenforward.
Extraordinarycreativeactivityhasbeencharacterizedasrevolutionary,flyinginthefaceofwhatisestablishedandproducing
Lastyear’seconomyshouldhavewontheOscarforbestpicture.Growthingrossdomesticproductwas4.1percent;profitssoared
Stratford-on-Avon,asweallknow,hasonlyoneindustry—WilliamShakespeare—buttherearetwodistinctlyseparateandincre
人生是由“渐”维持的。这在女人恐怕尤为必要:歌剧中,舞台上如花的少女,就是将来火炉旁边的老婆子,这句话骤听使人不能相信,少女也不肯承认,实则现在的老婆子都是由如花的少女“渐渐”变成的。人之能堪受境遇的变衰,,也全靠这“渐”的助力。巨富的纨绔子弟因屡
TheRiseofRPHistoricalreasonsReceivedPronunciation(RP)wasoriginallyassociatedwitha【1】______spokenintheregion
随机试题
声频在20000Hz以上称之为
生产工艺过程中产生的物理性有害因素不包括
通过抑制神经氨酸酶来发挥作用的药物是()。
甲系某地交通运输管理所工作人员,在巡查执法时致一辆出租车发生重大交通事故,司机乙重伤,乘客丙当场死亡,出租车严重受损。甲以滥用职权罪被提起公诉。关于本案处理,下列哪一选项是正确的?(2017年卷二28题)
人事行政机关实行折中制的国家有()。
以下关于劳动合同特征的表述中,错误的是()。
给定资料1.据国家相关部门统计,截至目前,中国有60岁以上老人1.78亿,占总人口的13.3%。其中失能和半失能老人约3171万人,大中城市空巢家庭高达70%。近年来,随着老龄化速度的加快,中国已逐步步人老龄化社会,“养老”成为社会保障体系面临的
促使不结盟运动形成的主要原因是()。
Whennextyear’scropofhigh-schoolgraduatesarriveatOxfordUniversityinthefallof2009,they’llbejoinedbyanewface
数据字典的主要作用是在软件分析和设计过程中为有关人员提供关于数据描述信息的查询,以保持数据的______。
最新回复
(
0
)