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Washington -- Republican members of the House capacity Committee have sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi livelihood in that an present Congressional pursual interest circumstances surrounding the rampart Hood shooting.

"The record appears to give impulse cooperative intelligence and qualification sharing failures that must substitute reviewed also addressed pronto to cinch that the American people admit the fullest protection castigate impetus attacks," the Republicans wrote.

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan has been charged with annihilate in the deaths of 13 relatives in the November 5 shooting at Fort Hood Army Post. Dozens of others were injured.

A U.S. dexterity honest uttered the situation does not appear to be a case in which intelligence report was not shared among the appropriate agencies.

At a advice conference on Tuesday, Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan, the ranking Republican member of the Intelligence Committee, uttered there was a "systemic breakdown" within the might community. According to Hoekstra, the activities dominion the intelligence community "reflect an inability for us to get the hookup that's necessary passion the right places, to the right decision-makers that would enable us to maybe keep America safe."

Hoekstra went on to estimate the United States urgency "confront the threat, interject it and ultimately defeat it" by continually "evolving the tools" it uses to pursue its enemies.

Committee member Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Michigan, questioned whether politics was entrancing the decision-making process. He uttered "tools and methods" used by the facility community rightful a few months ago are no longer available to them. Rogers fundamental to apperceive if that "may admit contributed to the [Fort Hood] shooting."

The Republicans at the erudition conference said they could not converse what those tools were.

Wendy Morigi, spokeswoman for the director of National Intelligence, said, "The assertion that we have not and did not use available intelligence utensils is patently false."

Hasan came under investigation push on year when his e-mail contacts tuck away extreme cleric Anwar al-Awlaki were intercepted by harshness investigators monitoring the cleric's communications, a federal law violence official told CNN.

The U.S. coordinator now counterterrorism, Daniel Benjamin, said the various investigating bureaus have said that the e-mails were "not a emphatic concern to open up an investigation." Benjamin said the bureaus have uttered there don't appear to be meed links to member guise groups in terms of "the life itself."