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The American people deserve an accounting of the failure quickly enough to fix the problem so that more American families won’t have to cry for justice after other attacks. Fortunately, this country can walk and chew gum at the same time.
But this President cannot.


The Army appears to be feeling pressure from civilian bosses on the following issues:
1) Hasan charged with 13 counts of murder when it should be 14 since one victim was pregnant. This is a long-standing precedent that should be routine for the Army’s advocates.
2) Hasan not charged with treason even though he was in contact with avowed enemies of the US, advocated for defeat of US, etc.
3) No purple hearts for the victims.
Coupling these with The Won’s pushing against Congressional oversight, I suspect there may be deeper ties with Hasan than just being on Bambi’s transition team.
Anyone thinking that Hasan’s potential as an intelligence honeypot was unknown is a fool. We need Congress mucking about in who-knew-what about Hasan like we need to confer Constitutional rights on KSM and put him on trial. Both are horrendously bad ideas.
Why is shining a light on the cockroaches who enabled Hasan to pull off his slaughter such a bad idea?
Arcs:
I just may be a fool then. Are you saying that our intelligence operators should/could/had turned Hasan to be some sort of double agent? This sounds absurdly close to probability zero. Or are you saying something else?
What information did I miss about Hasan’s enablers?
Oh, wait. I get it. You think that since someone knew Hasan was born to Palestinian parents, attended a Wahhibist mosque, and tried to reach out to known al Queda contacts, that maybe he should have had his 2nd Amendment rights taken away rather than “enabling” him to choose to commit the treasonous act of attacking and killing fellow Army members?
I don’t think that. I do think that Congress trying to determine just who knew what and how they knew it about what Hasan was doing before he went all Allahu Akhbar is a bad idea because it won’t stay behind closed doors. Now if Congress were to want to determine who in the know talked about Hasan to the media when they shouldn’t have, that might be a different story.
Sorry if that doesn’t fit in with your views.
If there was evidence that he was contacting enemies of ours he should have been thoroughly investigated and removed from military service if not court-martialed for treason.
You really don’t get much, do you? Except for that innate talent you have for constructing strawmen of ludicrous size and content.
In other words, ignorance is bliss, lest somebody in the military or the intelligence agencies be embarrassed for the lapse that permitted a jihadi savage to slaughter 14 and wound at least 30?
I’m not. I’m glad it doesn’t. If it did, I’d be a dumbass. Like you.