Military review: Troubling signals from Fort Hood suspect missed

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Source: CNN

Washington (CNN) -- An upcoming military review of the Fort Hood, Texas, shootings finds that the alleged shooter, Maj. Nidal Hasan, was promoted despite supervisors' concerns about his extremist views on Islam and odd behavior.

The review also says that a lack of communication between the U.S. military and a terrorism task force did not allow the sharing of information to determine whether he was a terrorist threat months before the shooting.

CNN was told details of the Pentagon review by a U.S. official with direct knowledge of the report. The official did not want to be identified because the report, requested by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, will not be officially released until Thursday.

The Defense Department review, led by former Chief of Naval Operation Adm. Vernon Clark and former Army Secretary Togo West, will recommend the Army and the entire military focus more on looking internally for potential threats among the troops, according to the official.

The review does not look into the reported e-mail communications between Hasan and the radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is based in Yemen and also has possible ties to the Christmas Day airline bombing plot. Those ties are being looked at in a separate criminal investigation by the Army.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/12/fort.hood.suspect/index.html

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1. Again, a failure to connect the dots, plain and simple. n/t

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2. Some failures are simple failures.

My grad department just about imploded but that "failure" to connect the dots was actually an incredible resistance to connect the dots.

When the connect-the-dot picture was presented to the department, they all got out their erasers and tried to erase the lines connecting the dots and, when that failed, they tried altering the numbers to say that the lines were misdrawn and that "suspension of admissions", "faculty positions to remain open indefinitely" and "spiritual malaise" were actually "increased funding", "here, have even more faculty positions," and "joyous, happy grad students".

The dean was not amused. Amazingly not amused.

So it was with Hasan. And I expect Obama at some point to be not amused. Amazingly not amused.

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4. Looks more like a purposeful failure to connect the dots . . . unless...

up is down, war is peace -- and insanity is sanity?

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3. Rather, it looks like we were trying to keep someone with potential as a "terrorist" around ...

Wonder why?