October 12, 2026 – Trump says there is evidence Obama had emails from Nidal Hasan saying he was going to wage jihad at Ft. Hood

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Former President George HW Bush, President-elect Barack Obama, President George W Bush, Washington, DC, January 7, 2009. (Credit: David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)

SIXTEEN years after his deadly rampage at Fort Hood, the United States Army is preparing to formally recommend the execution of Islamist terrorist Nidal Hasan — at last. President Trump, when he receives that request, should swiftly order Hasan’s death: That would be necessary justice. But it will not absolve our government for its years-long policy of lies and euphemisms surrounding Islamic radicalism that empowered Hasan to kill 13 service members — a policy that began under President George W. Bush and continued through the Obama and Biden administrations.

Fort Hood was not an unexpected “tragedy.” It was a preventable act of jihad, made possible by institutions that treated the truth about Islamist violence as more dangerous than the violence itself.

Hasan, an Army major who was given preferential treatment solely because of his Muslim religion and Arab ethnicity, murdered 13 Americans and wounded 33 others at Fort Hood, Tex., on Nov. 5, 2009. He screamed “Allahu Akbar” as he emptied his pistols into unarmed soldiers — then stalked the abattoir, shooting the wounded.

I had the honor of representing Hasan’s victims and their families in a lawsuit filed against the Army and the FBI in 2012. We sued because the government knew Hasan was an incompetent doctor and a terror threat, but chose not to act.

Hasan’s hatred for Americans was well-known. During his Army medical training, he spouted justifications for suicide bombing, defended Osama bin Laden, and said his religion trumped the Constitution.

His business card read “Soldier of Allah.” Two Army officers, an instructor and a colleague, separately called him a “ticking time bomb.”

Yet his official officer evaluation reports “sanitized his obsession with violent Islamist extremism into praiseworthy research on counterterrorism,” Senate investigators found. He was promoted to major despite manifestly poor performance — and credible evidence that he called PTSD-afflicted Americans “war criminals” in treatment sessions, urging them to convert to Islam to avoid damnation.

Hasan exchanged 18 messages with Anwar al-Awlaki, the al Qaeda cleric later killed by a US drone, asking whether service in the American military was compatible with Islam and martyrdom.

The San Diego Joint Terrorism Task Force, which was investigating Awlaki, flagged that traffic and sent it to FBI superiors in Washington. But those superiors didn’t interview Hasan, or notify his chain of command: It was too “politically sensitive.”

The lying continued as the dead were buried. In his memorial speech, President Obama did not use the words “terrorism,” “terrorist” or “terror.” Two days later Gen. George W. Casey Jr., then Army Chief of Staff, said: “What happened at Fort Hood is a tragedy . . . it would be a greater tragedy if diversity became a casualty here.”

Thereafter the Pentagon shamefully classified the attack as “workplace violence” — contradicting the evidence. The terrorist’s motive and beliefs were bureaucratically and politically taboo.

One officer told investigators that fear of discrimination complaints and “political correctness” stopped people from challenging Hasan. The fear had a purpose, and a price.

Labeling the attack “workplace violence” let officials deny the victims Purple Hearts and combat-related care, while protecting the Army’s vaunted “diversity.” The terrorist’s religion and ethnicity mattered more to the Pentagon than the safety of our soldiers.

In 2015, Congress passed a bill forcing the Obama administration to award Hasan’s victims Purple Hearts and proper benefits. Well-deserved compensation — but medals do not repair the doctrine that resulted in death.

“Political correctness” exempted an unfit officer from the rules because of his ethnicity and religion — and after he spilled Americans’ blood, to recast terrorism as an HR incident so no one had to say “violent Islamist extremism.”

The larger unfinished business is honesty. Under President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the policy of lies that empowered the terrorist Hasan is being purged from our government, our military and our immigration policy.

But those same lies are still told today in academia and medical systems, in city and state bureaucracies, and in international government and military circles. And Fort Hood teaches us that lying about the nature, the sources and the political purposes of Islamist terrorism inevitably carries a heartbreaking body count. (America First Legal/Press Reader, 10/5/2026)