{"id":25877,"date":"2013-10-07T00:36:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T03:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=25877"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:38:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:38:37","slug":"fort-hood-massacre-trial-cost-5m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/07\/fort-hood-massacre-trial-cost-5m\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Hood Massacre Trial Cost $5M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/fort-hood-trial-cost-government-about-5-million-1.245410\">Associated Press reports<\/a> that the nearly 4-year capital murder court-martial of then-US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan cost &#8220;nearly $5 million.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The biggest pre-trial expense in Maj. Nidal Hasan&#8217;s trial was more than $1 million for transportation for witnesses, jurors and attorneys&#8230;About $90,000 was spent to house the witnesses&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The records also show that in the months before his trial, Army helicopters ferried Hasan 40 miles from the Bell County Jail to Fort Hood at a cost of more than $194,000 so he could work on his defense in his private office. More than $200,000 was spent on trailers, apparently including the one that housed the private office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The expenses likely include the combat-like barriers that surrounded the facility holding the trial.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports that the nearly 4-year capital murder court-martial of then-US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan cost &#8220;nearly $5 million.&#8221; The biggest pre-trial expense in Maj. Nidal Hasan&#8217;s trial was more than $1 million for transportation for witnesses, jurors and attorneys&#8230;About $90,000 was spent to house the witnesses&#8230; The records also show that in the months before his [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[97,2,1431,10],"class_list":["post-25877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-fort-hood","tag-military","tag-nidal-malik-hasan","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}