A Senate report on the Fort Hood shooting is sharply critical of the FBI and its failure to adequately share information with the military about the alleged shooter’s extremist views.
And it says the Pentagon has failed to make necessary changes to identify violent Islamic extremism as a danger so that commanders will more readily watch for it and discharge service members who express those views.
According to portions of the report obtained by The Associated Press, military supervisors had the authority to discipline or discharge Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people and wounding more than 30 in the shootings at the Texas military post in November 2009.
The AAR report from the Army was quite a case of CYA.
PC run amok and fear of losing their investment in his education. I hope it really caused them to take a closer look at other Muslims in the service, especially recent converts.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
