Maj. Hasan's File Incomplete Due To FBI Mix-Up

by Dina Temple-Raston, NPR

NPR has learned that investigators have identified key failings — including a mix-up at the FBI's Washington and San Diego field offices. And that may explain why the man accused in the Fort Hood shootings, Maj. Nidal Hasan, went unnoticed — despite plenty of warning signs. Investigators in Washington saw only two of 18 e-mails Hasan sent to a radical imam.

Broadcast Dates

• Morning Edition, December 2, 2009