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The President has now confirmed that that
execution will not be live streamed. Major

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Nidal Hasan killed 13 people, wounded 32
others at Fort Hood in Texas in 2000. And 9,

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the president has reversed this decision in
part because of huge criticism about the idea

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from a variety of different sources, but in
this long post on Truth Social, he blamed the

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Obama administration's FBI for missing warning
signs about Nidal Hassan. The emails he refers

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to in his long post in regards to Hassan
exchanging messages with a radical cleric

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called Anwar al-A-Klaki, and that began during
. During the Bush administration, but then they

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were intercepted in 2009 when Obama was
president, and that's where President Trump has

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turned his ire towards. Um, he said that, you
know, at that point investigators decided that

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he wasn't a threat. It is worth noting an
independent review that was put in place after

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this effectively called this a serious failure
, blaming workload and policy rather than

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political interference, and uh found now
deliberate misconduct. It is worth noting as

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well that the. FBI Director at the time, uh,
Mr. Mueller was both the Director under

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President Bush and President Obama. So, you
know, there you are, President Trump making a

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critical point there to one of his
predecessors, but overall this decision, uh, is,

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is a backdown from the Trump administration.
He said in a post on Truth Social that he

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thinks the streaming of the execution for all
to see might have been a strong deterrent for

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the world to witness how America deals with
terrorists and scum in capitals like. Uh,

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Hassan, but many very good and well meaning
people would rather not watch him die through

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streaming or through any other visual device.
He will die as scheduled by firing squad, but

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this event will not be streamed. That said,
the execution may be viewed in person by the

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immediate families of the victims if they so
choose, they deserve to witness justice.

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Effectively, the rowback on this is because
senators from both sides of the house.

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Effectively said that this is a disgusting
idea, and they have accused the US government

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of mimicking ISIS executions. The vice
president outwardly came out against it, saying

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he wouldn't be watching it and wasn't sure it
was going to happen. Veterans, uh both of the

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shooting and indeed more broadly across the
armed forces have said that it is a bad idea.

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There's been a huge amount of pushback on it,
and the president now clearly has made a

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decision that it will not be live streamed.