I heard this report on NPR on the way home from work. Religious extremism & psychosis were tops on my initial guesses about motivation, but I have had a hard time understanding how Hasan was allowed to slip through the cracks if he had them, since you can’t have them without showing it. Especially the psychosis.
The NPR report clues us in that:
1) The army knew about the religious extremism
2) The army knew about the psychosis
3) The army considered the possibility of a violent outcome including fratricide
4) The army elected not to do anything because it would be too much work, and they hoped to make it someone else’s problem by shipping him to a different facility
5) Intelligence services supposedly communicated to the Army about Hasan’s e-mails with an overseas militant, but the Army apparently wasn’t aware of it. So, miscommunication or Intelligence CYA… not sure on that score.
1-3: It’s reassuring that the threat was identified (without ethnic or religious “profiling” that is so popular among people with fantasies about how if we were only treated the “Other” more unfairly we could all sleep safely). 4 & 5 were failures with deadly consequences. I hope we all learn from them. Listen to the report. It’s chilling.
Another disturbing item that was “missed” was Hasan purchased a semi-automatic pistol with several magazines capable of 20 rounds each on August 1, 2009. This happened in Killeen after he was transferred from Walter Reed.
All of these clues you mentioned plus the semi-automatic pistol purchase were missed. Huh. How about that? I am in disbelief.
I heard Chuck Schumer moaning this morning on one of the morning news shows about how horrible it is that agencies don’t share information.
I just stopped listening. It was pretty much the same old crap we heard after 9/11
He said he could not understand why the agencies would not share information. I figure considering the position he is in if he cannot understand it then I never will.
I don’t really think we have learned anything. The next time something like this happens tune in and see if the same problems we had here are not the same problems we will have had then.
My money is on intelligence CYA
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Nah, they concluded that was a bad decision & have engaged with Fox News, once more.
But, we REALLY need to continue to vote for the same party & the same solutions for the inner cities, especially as it pertains to education. More teachers & more money, that’s what is needed (it’s worked so well, right). Just give it a few more generations.
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Ricky surely you do not believe that if a Republican was in the White House things would be different do you?
And I also do not see how less money and fewer teachers is going to help matters as far as education is concerned.
My understanding is that the guy that did the shooting wanted out of the military. He had made it known that he had a problem with what he saw as a war on Muslims.
He should have been let out of the military. I just wish he would have told them that he was gay. That would have done the trick.
There was a Republican in the WH when things like this (not on this scale) happened. The blame was placed at the feet of….the unnecessary, illegal and irresponsible war against muslims that we were lied into starting.
Let’s continue with that winning formula of more teachers & more money on infrastructure, then. Maybe we just haven’t given it enough time, yet?
Gee, where would he get that idea? Where in America have people been saying that we’re at war with brown people?
So being a Muslim radical has now surpassed being gay on the political-correctness-pyramid of timidity? Wow, we’re screwed.
My understanding is that the guy that did the shooting wanted out of the military. He had made it known that he had a problem with what he saw as a war on Muslims.
Sounds like he had no problem with being in the military, it’s just that he wanted to be a part of the other military in this “war”.
Well. Devil his due. He did make Fort Hood more dangerous than Afghanistan for a while.