Maj. Gen. Michael Flynn, who was forced to resign as national security adviser after it emerged that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence about his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. ` Although neither the Department of Defense nor the FBI had specific information concerning the time , place , or nature of the attack , they collectively had sufficient information to have detected Hasan 's radicalization to violent Islamist extremism but failed both to understand and to act on it , '' that report said . His lawyer had argued against allowing the death penalty as a possible sentence . Hasan is partially paralyzed after being shot by police responding to the rampage .
Maj. Gen. Michael Flynn, who was forced to resign as national security adviser after it emerged that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence about his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. His lawyer had argued against allowing the death penalty as a possible sentence . Hasan is partially paralyzed after being shot by police responding to the rampage .