From what I've read so far, the VT officials thought, via the cops, that the early morning shooting was a domestic dispute and the shooter had left the campus.
Also, when you consider that the school has 25,000 full time students and is spread over 2,600 acres, and that people were probably starting to come into the school for work and students were probably starting to head out to classes, an campus lockdown is quite a task and not an instant feat.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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