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Obama orders intel review on Fort Hood shooting

A neighbor walks past the apartment of Nidal Hasan in Killeen, Texas, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009. Hasan is accused of killing 13 people and wounding dozens more at Fort Hood military base on Nov. 5.
Jerry Larson
A neighbor walks past the apartment of Nidal Hasan in Killeen, Texas, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009. Hasan is accused of killing 13 people and wounding dozens more at Fort Hood military base on Nov. 5.
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President Barack Obama has ordered a review of all intelligence related to Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, and whether the information was properly shared and acted upon within government agencies.

The review will be overseen by John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism. The first results are due to the White House by Nov. 30.

Obama also ordered the preservation of the intelligence. Members of Congress, particularly Michigan Rep. Peter Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, have called for a full examination of what agencies knew about Hasan's contacts with a radical imam and others of concern to the U.S., and what they did with the information.

The FBI confirmed this week that the U.S. government knew about 10 to 20 e-mails between Hasan and a radical imam beginning in December 2008.

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