Now listen, Joe Lieberman doesn’t want to ascribe any motives to Nidal Malik Hasan. “It’s premature to reach conclusions about what motivated him,” Lieberman very reasonably said on some Fox News teevee something or other last night. But! But! Lieberman will say this: Hasan was a “self-radicalized, homegrown terrorist” who “had turned to Islamist extremism.” He will say that.  Islamist extremism: or perhaps you might recognize it by its street name? “TERRORISM“, also “bennies,” “black beauties,” “crystal,” “Sy Hershey kisses,” and “pep pills.” Anyway, Lieberman intends to launch some congressional investigation, because that’s what he does, and because that will get to the root of this terrorism once and for all. [The Hill]

It has been let’s see, around 20 hours or something since the Ft. Hood massacre, so it was weird that someone who lives on the Internet hadn’t suggested a connection between Obama and alleged gunman Nidal Malik Hasan. So yes, quite sorry for the delay, but conspiracy theorist dilettante Jerome Corsi would like to do just that! So get this: last May, GWU held some vague security brainstorming transition task force thing that does not actually offer security or transition advice to the President. There’s a document and everything. That’s part A, of the theory. Parts B-Z? MORE »

• Total body count was 13—with another 30 injured—at Ft. Hood yesterday. The gunman survived after being shot four times. [New York Times]
• Speaking of the gunman, Army psychiatrist,  Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, here is a lengthy biographical portrait. [Washington Post]
• An important Afghan governor and his militia and their rocket launchers are challenging the legitimacy of new president Hamid Karzai.  [WSJ]
• British PM Gordon Brown—and his soldiers and their implied rocket launchers—also threatened Afghanistan to just, you know, it’s enough already with the corruption. [AP]
• The Pakistani Army invaded a Taliban alcove in lawless, mountainy South Waziristan, presumably also a stop on Sarah Palin’s book tour. [Reuters]
• So apparently a giant wall (of symbolism?) was blocking everyone’s view at the Jay-Z/Beyonce/U2 performance at the Brandenburg Gate at last night’s fall-of-the-Berlin-Wall-themed concert. [Daily Mail]