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Investigation was that the massacre at fort hood could have been prevented. >> this is not a case where dots had to be connected, in order to figure out that we had a serious threat. the dots were already connected. there was just a fail tower act. >> reporter: the report states that although none of the d.o.d. noir the fbi had specific information about the attack, they had sufficient information about hassan's radicalization, the violent islamist extremism, but failed to understand it and act on it. the report describes how as early as 2003, hassan's radical ideology was no secret to his fel...

>> do you believe it could have been averted? >> i do. that's the painful conclusion. >> there was a failure to act. >> the obama administration says no purple hearts will be awarded because what happened at fort hood almost three years ago should be addressed within the broader threat of workplace violence. >> why didn't anybody blow the whistle? >> we are all here on this episode of fox files. >>ie wanted to help soldiers. i wanted to work in mental health. >> idaho native shawn manning comes from a family with a proud tradition of serving the nation. >> my grandfather was in iwo jima in wor...

To act. that morning, he stopped by his local 7-eleven, the employee on the clock that morning remembered the visit. >> i talked to him and i told him, good morning, how are you? he just smiled, like normal. i noticed his outfit. i stopped and commented on it. i asked him, what's, you know, why you are all dressed up today? he said, he just wer it in the morning sometime. evasive. >> reporter: at 1:30 p.m., he appeared in the soldier readiness center in his army uniform, where hundreds of officers were being processed, coming home from a long deployment or preparing for one far from home. >> y...

Questions have been raise audio how did this happen? how did someone like nidal hassan, a bad doctor and a vocal islamist extremist, continually move up in the army ranks? carps joe lieberman and susan collins are the ranking members in the chairman of governmental affairs. the committee issued this report, a ticking time bomb on the fort hood attack. >> could the massacre at fort hood be preventd? >> it's really painful for me to say, but my conclusion after our investigation was that the massacre at fort hood could have been prevented. >> this is not a case where dots had to be connected, in...

The violent islamist extremism, but failed to understand it and act on it. the report describes how as early as 2003, hassan's radical ideology was no secret to his fellow students in the army. >> his rhetoric was so ark larming and so radicalized that two of his fellow officers described him as a ticking time bomb. >> he did things like repeatedly told classmates and superiors that his devotion to shirria law superseded his devotion to the constitution. that alone should have had him dismissed from the military. >> reporter: there was an episode, maybe the slide presentation that he had, that...