"The military remains vulnerable to another Fort Hood-like massacre with religious radicalization on the rise and too little attention being paid to internal threats"
Translation: Purge the dissenters.
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The military's "investigation":
"Concerns about Fort Hood suspect ignored by supervisors; Investigators find superiors kept promoting Hasan" by Richard Lardner, Associated Press | January 12, 2010
WASHINGTON - A Defense Department review of the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, has found that the doctors overseeing Major Nidal Hasan’s medical training repeatedly voiced concerns over his strident views on Islam and his inappropriate behavior, yet continued to give him positive performance evaluations that kept him moving through the ranks is the picture emerging from the review ordered by Defense Secretary Robert Gates....
What remains unclear is why Hasan was promoted in spite of the worries over his competence. That probably will be the subject of a more detailed accounting by the department. Recent statistics show the Army rarely blocks junior officers from promotion, especially in the medical corps. Hasan showed no signs of being violent or a threat. But parallels have been drawn between the missed signals in his case and those preceding the thwarted Christmas attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound US airliner....
Look at all the LAME-ASS EXCUSES and LINKAGES, folks!
PFFFFFFT!
Yet no one in Hasan’s chain of command appears to have challenged his eligibility to hold a secret security clearance....
Because there was NO NEED!
What we have here is a PATSY whose story must be back-filled with you-know-what!
Instead, in July 2009, Hasan arrived in central Texas, his secret clearance intact, his reputation as a weak performer well known, and Army authorities believing that posting him at such a large facility would mask his shortcomings....
But our government cares about you, troops -- enough to send you to an unstable and traitorous doctor. You smell something stinking?
After the Fort Hood shooting, Gates appointed two former senior defense officials to examine the procedures and policies for identifying threats within the military services. The review, led by former Army Secretary Togo West and retired Navy Admiral Vernon Clark, began Nov. 20 and is to be delivered to Gates by Friday. Hasan’s superiors had a full picture of him, developed over his 12-year career as a military officer, medical student, and psychiatrist, according to the information reviewed by AP.
While in medical school at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences from 1997 to 2003, Hasan received a string of below-average and failing grades, was put on academic probation, and showed little motivation to learn.
According to the recently forged, 'er, rewritten, 'er, released government documents, yup.
Yet the information about his academic probation and bad grades was not included in his military personnel file, leaving the impression he was ready for more intense instruction.
Oh, it NEVER MADE HIS FILE, huh, ha-ha-ha-!!!!
PFFFFFFFT!
In June 2003, Hasan started a four-year psychiatry internship and residency at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, and he was counseled frequently for deficiencies in his performance. Teachers and colleagues described him as a below-average student.
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And where you have patsies you must have scapegoats:
"Ft. Hood inquiry includes supervisors" by Associated Press | January 15, 2010
WASHINGTON - A Pentagon inquiry into the Fort Hood shooting could lead to punishment of up to eight Army officers, a US official said.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is expected to refer findings on the officers to the Army for further inquiry and possible punishment. An official familiar with a Pentagon inquiry said it finds fault with five to eight supervisors who knew or should have known about shortcomings and erratic behavior of the shooting suspect, Major Nidal Hasan....
How come no one was disciplined after 9/11 or the Iraq lies?
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Okay, that last item an Invisible Ink that never appeared in my paper, and now another switcheroo? Sick of this s***, Glob.
WASHINGTON --The military remains vulnerable to another Fort Hood-like massacre with religious radicalization on the rise and too little attention being paid to internal threats, senior Pentagon officials said Friday.
An internal investigation into the shooting at the Texas Army post in November found that several officers failed to use "appropriate judgment and standards" in overseeing the career of Army Maj. Nidal Hasan and that their actions should be investigated immediately.... A separate White House assessment concluded the government doesn't do enough to share information on "disaffected individuals" and that closer scrutiny of some information is needed by intelligence and law enforcement officials....
You hear that a lot, don't you, American? Couldn't connect the dots or share information.
How much are you PAYING FOR this FAILED TYRANNY based on LIES anyway?
Of particular concern is "self-radicalization" by individuals seeking out extremist views, said Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "There is clearly more and more of that going on, and how much of it we have in the military is something that we ought to really understand," Mullen said.
Yup, let the PURGES BEGIN!
The Hasan case has taken on heightened importance in recent weeks because of its parallels to the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound passenger jet. Both cases are linked to a radical cleric in Yemen and expose a failure by intelligence officials to prevent the attacks....
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"You can't talk to enemies" -- George W. Bush
Hasan was described as a loner with lazy work habits and a fixation on his Muslim religion. He was passed along from office to office and job to job despite professional failings that included missed or failed exams and physical fitness requirements.
You smelling something, readers?
Hasan was often late or absent, sometimes appeared disheveled and performed to minimum requirements. The pattern was obvious to many around him, yet not fully reflected where it counted in the Army's bureaucratic system of evaluation and promotion, investigators found.
PFFFFFFFFFFFTTTT!!!!
So no one ever said "You are promoting him?" to the ones who did the promoting -- even in the coffee room?
Hasan nonetheless earned some good reviews from patients and colleagues. His promotion to major was based on an incomplete personnel file, one official said, but also on performance markers that Hasan had met, if barely. Hasan showed no signs of being violent or a threat.
Retired Adm. Vernon E. Clark and former Army Secretary Togo D. West Jr., who led the Pentagon's two-month investigation, told reporters that there were discrepancies between Hasan's performance and his personnel records. "There is not a well-integrated means to gather, evaluate, and disseminate the wide range of indicators that could signal an insider threat," Clark said.
And the military is the best we got!
Yeah, they didn't detect 9/11 and the stand-down orders very well either, did they?
Their investigation also found that his top-level security clearance hadn't been properly investigated.
Again, like 9/11.
Had policies been properly followed, investigators say, his clearance may have been revoked "and his continued service and pending deployment would have been subject to increased scrutiny." The investigation found there aren't policies and procedures in place to improve chances that officials will prevent another attack....
So expect another one some time in the future -- when it is strategically advantageous to the agenda, of course.
The inquiry also questions whether the Pentagon is fully committed to FBI-run Joint Terrorism Task Forces. The report calls on the Defense Department to fully staff those teams of investigators, analysts, linguists and others so the Pentagon can quickly see information collected across government agencies about potential links between troops and terrorist or extremist groups.
Hmmmmmmmmm.
Gates said the latest Pentagon report raises "serious questions about the degree to which the entire Department of Defense is prepared for similar incidents in the future, especially multiple simultaneous incidents."
Sort of like a Mumbai on military bases, Bob?
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And a strange pick-up for the Globe's web site:
"Ft. Hood inquiry warns of wider security issues; Pentagon finds oversight flaws Officers may face discipline" by Gary Martin and Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News | January 16, 2010
WASHINGTON - A Pentagon review of the Nov. 5 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, has concluded that the military remains unprepared to stop internal security threats at its US installations, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said yesterday.
Gates said the independent review found that the Pentagon, like other federal departments and agencies, remains rooted in Cold War thinking designed to stop state-sponsored threats, not terrorism....
Hasan’s lawyer, John Galligan, said he is still waiting for the Army to turn over information and laboratory reports to help his defense prepare for an upcoming sanity board review to determine if he is mentally competent to be court martialed. The Pentagon has not made everything public, and is not being completely forthcoming, Galligan said....
They NEVER ARE!
The report found the emergency response at Fort Hood was good, with leaders at the post and surrounding communities already prepared for “mass-casualty events.’’ Criticism was strongest about the Pentagon’s ability to detect threats from inside the military services....
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