I guess the New York Times thinks they can mitigate Nidal Hasan’s murder of 14 or 15 Americans at Fort Hood in the arena of public opinion by making him a more sympathetic figure in their pages. They discuss the emails he sent to superiors in the days preceding the bloody attack on unarmed soldiers;
In the e-mails, one sent 13 days before the attack and the second three days prior, Major Hasan asked his supervisors and Army legal advisers how to handle three cases that disturbed him. In one case, a soldier reported to him that American troops had poured 50 gallons of fuel into the Iraqi water supply as revenge; the second case involved another soldier who told him about a mercy killing of a severely injured insurgent by medics; and in the third, a soldier spoke of killing an Iraqi woman because he was following orders to shoot anything that approached a specific site.
The Army never fully investigated his concerns. On Nov. 5, 2009, Major Hasan walked into a medical deployment center to kill as many soldiers as he could as part of a jihad to protect Muslims and Taliban leaders from troops heading to Afghanistan, he has said.
Maybe they weren’t investigated because they sound so wildly out of the bounds of reality. No one in the military intentionally poisons a civilian water supply “as revenge”. Can you imagine your neighbor’s kid doing that? Medics don’t kill people for mercy or otherwise. My son who worked in the operating room at the hospital in Bagram said that they worked on more Taliban in their operating room than Americans because that’s who was getting shot up. They got the same level of care as anyone else who came through those doors.
Yes, Hasan should have been ferreted out before November 5, 2009 and it’s the PC Army’s (and the PC FBI’s) fault that he wasn’t, but the responsibility for the horror of that day rests solely on the shoulders of Hasan. It’s not the fault of the soldiers who went to Iraq to do their job, and it wasn’t the fault of the soldiers who were deploying to Afghanistan that day.
The first email was sent 13 days before the murders, does the Times and Hasan expect the whole world to stop while the Army investigates one report in fewer than 13 days?
Hasan tried to make the emails an issue during his trial and the judge, to her credit, didn’t allow that. So the New York Times has decided they’ll make an issue of the emails in the court of public opinion.
Thanks to Mr Wolf for the link.
“You left your door unlocked. I told you it was unlocked. So it’s your fault I robbed you”.
That’s pretty much his defense.
Screw the NYT liberal rag.
No matter what kind of mud or shit Hasan manages to sling in that court room, the only “smoking gun” that will be dealt with there will be the one that was in his hand when he killed those soldiers. Anything else is just smoke and mirrors.
What Chip said about the NYT.
It does not speak well of the editors of the NY Times that they feel the need to try to gain sympathy for this most unsympathetic character. When they stick the needle in his arm, I am sure there will be appropriate gnashing of teeth on the editorial pages of the Times talking about what a bunch of savages we are. The liberal assholes of the NY Times are all covered up in unicorn glitter and hopey changy bullshit and could not for the life of them muster the intestinal fortitude that it would require to find Hasan objectionable for what he did.
After Hassan was arrested we heard stories of colleagues who reported his seditious and anti American statements and actions. We also heard that these colleagues were disciplined or counseled or had negative bullets in their OER/NCOER. If this is true, have these OERs/NCOERS been corrected, and if these peoples’ careers were damaged, has that been corrected. Have been wondering for a while.
The late Redd Fox expressed my opinion about the NYT and its editorial staff best in this line from Sanford & Son:
“Basta. All of ya.”
Even if any of this is true; isn’t anything that was told to him is subject to doctor/patient confidentiality?
It can’t be soon enough till this trial is over and he is out of the news. Let the dipshit’s legs rot off in a prison cell while he defecats all over himself for 30 years. Then they can eventually turn him into the martyr he longs to be.
A – He’s lying.
B – I don’t care what some unnamed ‘patients’ told him, find them and bring them forward.
C – He’s no better than any other murdering thug.
D – When is premeditated murder okay?
E – He’s lying.
Don’t waste my already too-few tax dollars supporting this muzzie in a prison cell for the remainder of his life.
Execute him. Put him out of my misery. By whatever means are used, I volunteer to do it. Throw a switch, push a plunger, pull a trigger, drive the stakes to tie him out by an anthill & pour on the honey – whatever. I’m there.
Oh. And what #2 Chip NASA said. Screw the NYT.
Okay, here’s the skinny on this. The terrorist bastard had a go at cross examining an officer who had knowledge of the emails which, by the way, came suddenly from terrorist bastard, just before his murder spree. The prosecution objected on the basis that terrorist bastard’s question was outside the scope of direct (i.e., the questions and subject matter about which the prosecutor eaxmined the witness.) The judge agreed and sustained the objection. So what did terrorist bastrad then do, after the hearing? He had his consultant attorney send the emails and info to the NYT! In other words, terrorist bastard’s sure objective is to put his arguments to the public and, no doubt, thereby reach his fellow terroist bastards. If he can’t do it through the hearing, he’ll do it otherwise–and the NYT is, evidently, only too happy to accomodate him. In this sense, Jonn, you are damn straight that the NYT is in the box for terrorist bastard, no matter how neutral they make their report appear. They’ve done his bidding just by reporting the crap in the first place.
The prosecution has rested in the Hasan trial.
I say give him a transfusion of pig’s blood the day before he’s hung and bury his corpse in a landfill after it’s been wrapped in pigskin!!
@#2, Chip, DITTO!!
Eh, Major Hasan is looking to die in a compromised-jihad manner. Before he manages to kill himself, he will want to destroy more American soldiers.
There is patient-doctor privilige. The doctor has an obligation, when informed of a crime, to call JAG and get specific legal advice. These stories of soldiers committing crimes can be verified or not by interviewing whomever he claimed to have told, and to get an exception to HIPAA and review his written patient notes.
Major Hasan can not claim more victims by lying, but by telling the truth and getting joes sent to the slammer or cashiered.
If our Military or politicos had the balls they should have he would have charged, busted and locked up at the first sign of his treason and treachory. Be cause he was a Muslim Officer and of South West Asian descent they were afraid of doing the right thing.
Due to their mewling we lost those men an women at Fort hood. Anyone who at one time passed on the opportunity to get Hassan out of the loop should be sitting beside him as a co defendent.