Report: FBI, Army failures preceded Fort Hood massacre

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Source: CNN

Washington (CNN) -- FBI and Army officials repeatedly ignored multiple warning signs that could have prevented the November 2009 massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, according to a long-awaited report released Thursday by two U.S. senators.

The inability to act was a result of both bureaucratic inefficiency and an unwillingness to identify and confront homegrown Islamic extremism, the report concludes.

Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan is accused in the shootings, which left 13 people dead and 32 wounded. He faces a likely court-martial and potential death penalty.

Thursday's report -- titled "A Ticking Time Bomb" -- was written by Sens. Joseph Lieberman, I-Connecticut, and Susan Collins, R-Maine. Lieberman is the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee; Collins is the committee's top Republican.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/02/03/fort.hood.report/index.html

[mwrguy]

1. Train men to be killers, then act all surprised

when they kill.

I know that Hassan was a doctor, but the army is steeped in a culture of violence and death. It's bound to infect people immersed in it.

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2. Doctors are not trained to be infantry troops...

obviously some here have never served.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. Lieberman's hindsight is 20-20, maybe

If policy and training both dictate that there will be no profiling, then occasionally some radical will slip past safeguards. Nobody could have known that this particular person would go on a murderous spree.

And if we're so damned worried about "ticking time bombs", the military should do a better job relieving the stresses that result in suicides. They talk a good game, but I think the standard "fix" is to have a troubled individual talk to the chaplain, then get deployed to a war zone for the umpteenth time.

Want to reduce "ticking time bombs"? Stop the fucking wars.

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