As many as eight Army officers may be punished for failing to heed warning signs and take action against suspected Fort Hood gunman Maj. Nidal Hasan, a U.S. official said Thursday.
First reported in the Los Angeles Times, an official familiar with a Pentagon review of the case, which will be discussed at a briefing Friday, said the officers who face discipline hold ranks of colonel and below.
The review reportedly found that superiors allowed Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, to advance within the ranks despite his failings to meet physical and professional standards. Hasan avoided physical training, was overweight and frequently late, but was seen by superiors as a rare medical officer and thus avoided corrective action.
“Had those failings been properly adjudicated, he wouldn’t have progressed,” the official told the Times.
Additionally, the Pentagon review into the deadly rampage that killed 13 found that the Defense Department does not do an adequate job of sharing information about internal personnel, and it focuses more on hunting spies than ferreting out extremists.
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Report a person like Hasan’s strange actions and the politically correct machine ends your career, or take a chance that nothing will go wrong and keep your mouth shut. But if something does go wrong onto the chopping block goes your career. The PC mindset has got these poor smucks coming and going it seems.
I wonder if the charge will be “cowardice in the face of the enemy”. The unfortunate aspect of this case is that a similar reticence is found in all Western governments, at all levels of society. In part, our leaders are to blame. They have repeated the mantra that “Islam is a religion of peace” thereby denying the religious roots of the violence itself — and, although many people probably doubt the accuracy of the mantra, few will be brave enough to publicly question it. This reticence, so evident in the Hasan case, can be found most recently in yesterday’s Ottawa Citizen where a column on violence against women discusses Afghanistan but never mentions Islam by name (although it does name Christianity), and in the response to the attempted bombing on 25 December where everyone (not the most likely perpetrators) are now subject to additional security checks.
Defence Secretary Robert Gates just spoke to the media regarding the conclusions of the investigation into this shooting. Apparently the system that failed to prevent this mass murder from happening did so because it is burdened by 20th century processes. Huh? Cripes, a monkey could have seen this killer approaching his ‘boiling point’ from a mile away. Neither did he even hint that political correctness was a contributing factor. He said that more focus has to go into finding out was causes people to become radical. Well Fox News and Fox News viewers are considered radical by some so radical what radical who Bob? Specifics please. He simply could not bring himself to clearly identify this issue with radical Islam. He’s going to get his butt handed to him on a platter by those ‘radical’ commentators on Fox.
Kinda reminds one of the recent tragic death of an Ottawa Police Officer by an obviously very mentally ill RCMP Officer on sick leave.
Why do these sick/dangerous people slip through the cracks?
Uv, I am patiently waiting for the day when you gain some reading comprehension and stay on topic.
I just know its going to happen some day. Hope i live to see it.
I know its difficult for you at times to understand, Lee but there is a ‘common factor’ in that theres obviously sick people slipping through the cracks with tragic consequences. Hopfully, someone in authority has learned from both of these sad cases.
But hang in there Lee as I have high hopes for you.
Radical Islam and genuine mental illness have absolutely nothing in common.
But one can certainly have both.
However, only one gives you an excuse to build empires in the Middle East so it’s not too hard to see which will receive focus and which will be shelved as “PC”
I have not heard that the Fort Hood shooter was suffering from mental illness. Perhaps someone could confirm that.
If that was indeed the case, I retract my first statement. If not, then i stick with it.
My problen is that this equivalency detracts from the issue at hand. To my “understanding”, there were concrete signs all over the place that this “shooter” was going to be a problem. He certainly had no place in the armed forces in any capacity.
I can only imagine the feelings of those who were in a position to do something but chose not to. I only hope that they feel as badly as i think they should.
Klu Klux Klan Cy, do you even read the drivel you post? According to Jihad i websites of the Jihad i extremists is the establishment of a world wide Caliphate. They didn’t attack the WTC to give GWB an excuse to build a pipeline. Btw just how far along is that pipeline, should be through Azerbaijan by now no?
Irony is not Joe’s friend.
Neither is reading comprehension. 9/11 was nearly a decade ago – you can’t keep beating that horse to death. This is an entirely separate incident involving American-born people with documented war-related anxiety. For you to discount it entirely because you want to get at the Mooooslims is exactly what it sounds like.
Since you’re too lazy to Google your own information, Iraq (which has spot bugger nothing to do with 9/11 yet receives greater U.S. focus than the nation that financed the attack or the nation that hosted the training) has 112 billion barrels of oil and 110 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Saddam is dead – can you think of any other reason the US is still around?
The Ku Klux Klan are paleo-conservative Christians. I’ll give you 3 guesses as to whether they’d attack you or me first. And I really do think you’ll need three.
Funny how the KKKCy keeps moving the goal posts. A week ago it was Afghanistan that was going to get the pipeline and now its Iraq. I guess I will have to buy a program just to keep up. Let me guess the Americans rushing to help the Indonesian tsunami victims was because of all the oil.
Oh btw the loss of irony is clearly lost on you as well. I could care the less about the (democrat) roots of the KKK I am pointing out the similarity of the hatred spewed by Cy and the KKK. I don’t care what colour the skin is or where you come from. Hatred is hatred. What you constantly post is hatred akin to that of the KKK. When you clean up your act I will stop referring to you as KKK Cy.
Afghanistan is the target for the pipeline. But there’s no way that can happen under the current circumstances. The allied forces can’t even secure Kabul, and Karzai is a stroke of luck from getting iced – how are they going to put a hot dog stand in the tribal outer region, much less a pipeline (do you in fact read the news)? Did it ever occur to you that this may be why the U.S. has chosen to set up shop elsewhere?
This isn’t rocket science. Then again you’re implying a black centrist is analagous to a KKK member because he doesn’t like Sarah Palin fans who hold up monkey dolls. That isn’t going to change so feel free to continue down your childish trajectory.
…….can you think of any other reason the US is still around?
Could it be because they have never forgotten about the estimated 3,300,000 innocent men women and children that were murdered by the Khmer Rouge after they pulled their troops out of Vietnam? Or more recently the estimated 100′s of thousands of Kurds and Shiites, many women and children, that were massacred in Iraqi under Saddam and a desire to see that that never happens again. Saddam may be gone, but his murderous ideology lives on in the shadows in Iraq just waiting for another opportunity. Maybe, just maybe America wants to only leave Iraq once it has a stable law abiding government in place. Might that be the case, that America might just want to do good no matter the cost, instead of always just wanting to steal somebody’s oil and gas? How much oil and gas does Haiti have? Has the price of sand gone through the roof on the NYSE? If not, then I ask why on earth would they bother to even go there and lead the recovery in both money, manpower and technology? Now here’s a crazy thought. I wonder if America just might not be the monster so many, especially radical Islamists like Hasan, in the world believe her to be?
After making a snarky remark earlier about staying on topic, i would certainly be considered partisan if i did not mention that Joe, Cy and BTDT have strayed even farther from the topic at hand.
Bearing in mind of course that its none of my business. lol
Actually, its entertaining as well as educational, so carry on folks.
BTDT:
It could be … but it’s highly doubtful. It certainly sounds better on the propaganda front though, doesn’t it? As Alan Greenspan penned in his book, what is America’s fear of admitting they are going after oil? Thousands of wars have been fought for resouces throughout history. 0 have been fought to make sure central Asian girls can go to school or so that three enemy nations within a state can kiss and makeup. At least the oil argument is rational and can be debated.
It’s hard not to think the propagandist takes you for an idiot every time (s)he spins this Hollywood story about the U.S. spending billions of dollars and thousands of lives on some remote chance that a part of the middle east works just like America for the mere enjoyment of a few villagers.
If Iraq was purely about oil, it would have been far cheaper to outbid the French for the rights to the resources and leave Saddam in power.
Well I guess that explains Owebama’s dithering over sending more troops to Afghanistan; he was trying to figure out a better route for George & Dick’s pipeline.
You know that one of the hallmarks of the KKK hatred is all the imagined evils in the world don’t you Cy? I once knew what would now be called a neo-nazi who believed that there was this Jewish conspiracy that started WWII. I called him a wanker too.
Ward, correct me if I’m wrong but wasnt the U.S. and Saddam friends at one time, so much so that the states backed Iraq in their war with Iran?
Oil makes for strange bedfellows some would say.