The American Pundit

Which might help explain why, as Ed Morrissey says, he made $90,000 per year and yet still lived like a pauper. It would appear that the Fort Hood murderer (terrorist?) wired money to Pakistan, largely a sanctuary for Osama Bin Laden and his Al Qaeda colleagues.

Authorities have been examining whether Fort Hood massacre suspect Nidal Malik Hasan wired money to Pakistan in recent months, an action that one senior lawmaker said would raise serious questions about Hasan’s possible connections to militant Islamic groups.

Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., said sources “outside of the [intelligence] community” learned about Hasan’s possible connections to the Asian country, which faces a massive Islamist insurgency and is widely believed to be Osama bin Laden’s hiding place.

Hasan made about $90,000 per year yet his finances don’t seem to add up:

Hasan’s finances have been a mystery since last week, when the Army major and psychiatrist allegedly shot and killed 13 colleagues at the sprawling Central Texas military base. Hasan earned more than $90,000 a year and had no dependents, yet lived in an aging one-bedroom apartment that rented for about $300 a month.

“You can bet there is an ongoing, extensive investigation into every single financial transaction he made,” said Matt Orwig, a former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Texas who has no direct knowledge of the Hasan case. “Federal investigative agencies are very good at tracing the flow of money, both to him and from him.”

Where did the rest of the money go? Pakistan? Maybe his radical contacts in Yemen? And how did no one notice that he was a well-educated, well-paid professional living like a pauper with no dependents? Making financial transfers to Pakistan and having contacts with radicals in Yemen?

Let me guess: They knew but were afraid of saying anything because it would look like discrimination against a Muslim. It’d be par for the course.