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Originally Posted by JohnnyD
Unfortunately, this entire country is so race-sensitive and dictated by Politically Correctness that the most effective security measure for this country must yield to the PR whores.
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ahhhh, yes..political correctness..
Lieberman, Collins: FBI and Pentagon could have stopped the Fort Hood shootings
By Joseph I. Lieberman and Susan M. Collins
Friday, February 4, 2011; 12:00 AM
Maj. Nidal Hasan, accused in the murders of 13 people and the attempted murders of 32 others in the shooting spree at Fort Hood, Tex., in November 2009, appears to be the toughest kind of terrorist to spot: a lone wolf who plots without the overt support of domestic cells or foreign sponsors.
Still, the attack did not come as a complete surprise to some in the Army and the FBI, and that makes this incident all the more tragic.
Our Senate committee's 14-month investigation of the Fort Hood killings has concluded that the
Department of Defense and the FBI "collectively had sufficient information to have detected Hasan's radicalization to violent Islamist extremism but failed both to understand and to act on it."
The deaths at Fort Hood could and should have been prevented. The Defense Department's
failure to acknowledge the threat of violent Islamist extremism within its ranks, coupled with organizational and communication flaws in the FBI's counterterrorism operations, contributed to the tragedy.
At various times while stationed at Walter Reed Army Medical Center,
Hasan, a psychiatrist, openly expressed his beliefs that suicide bombings were justified, that U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan were wars against Islam, that Muslim Americans in the U.S. military might engage in fratricide against their comrades and that his loyalty to his religion was greater than his sworn obligation as a military officer to support and defend the Constitution.
Some of Hasan's colleagues complained about these statements.
Two fellow officers described him as "a ticking time bomb." But astonishingly, Hasan's commanders took no action against him. They gave various excuses for this, including an
outrageously misguided argument that
Hasan's radical statements provided insights into violent Islamist extremism that could benefit our military.
Rather than discipline or discharge him, Hasan's superiors sanitized his personnel evaluations so that
evidence of his radicalization was praised as research on terrorism and Islam.
Lieberman, Collins: FBI and Pentagon could have stopped the Fort Hood shootings