{"id":15739,"date":"2009-11-23T08:12:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T13:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15739"},"modified":"2009-11-23T08:12:15","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T13:12:15","slug":"the-politically-correct-investigation-of-major-hasan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15739","title":{"rendered":"The politically correct investigation of Major Hasan"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve suspected for quite some time that the feds are planning to cut Major Hasan, the Fort Hood murderer (um, not alleged), some slack. Of course, his lawyer and the Washington Post <\/a>are complicit in this purveying of slack;<\/p>\n

“He has no sensation from the nipple area down,” Hasan’s civilian attorney, John P. Galligan, said in a telephone interview. <\/p>\n

During a closed-door hearing in Hasan’s hospital room on Saturday that lasted about an hour, a magistrate ruled that Hasan be confined until his military trial, Galligan said. <\/p>\n

“In the middle of this hearing, he started to nod off and go to sleep,” Galligan said. “When I’ve spoken with him, he’s coherent, but your ability to have any meaningful exchange with him is limited in time and subject.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But, Reuel Marc Gerecht in the Wall Street Journal<\/a> today, makes these points about the treatment of Hasan before his shooting rampage on that November afternoon in regards to FBI’s investigations;<\/p>\n

For the FBI, religion remains a much too sensitive subject, much more so than the threatening ideologies of yesteryear. Imagine if Maj. Hasan had been an officer during the Cold War, regularly expressing his sympathy for the Soviet Union and American criminality against the working man. Imagine him writing to a KGB front organization espousing socialist solidarity. The major would have been surrounded by counterintelligence officers. <\/p>\n

A law-enforcement agency par excellence, the FBI reflects American legal ethics. Because the FBI is always thinking about criminal prosecutions and admissible evidence, its intelligence-collecting inevitably gets defined by its judicial procedures. Good counterintelligence curiosity\u2014that must come into play before any crime is committed\u2014is at odds with a G-man’s raison d’\u00eatre. And much more so than local police departments\u2014which are grounded to the unpleasantness of daily life\u2014it is highly susceptible to politically correct behavior.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Political correctness since the shooting has been no less politically correct. The reports that Hasan was dead in the early hours of the aftermath, the reports that he had multiple tours in combat and that his rampage was a result of his combat stress. Even the announcement that Hasan’s computer showed no connections to foreign radical entities<\/a> has been proven false by the large number of email communications Hasan had with a terror-supporting cleric in Yemen. And the FBI knew of those connections before the shooting and didn’t think it was important enough to tell the Army about.<\/p>\n

Oops.<\/p>\n

I shudder to think where the investigating agencies are looking these days for answers, when the answer is right in front of their stupid faces. If it was a snake….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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