Seriously. It doesn't make a lick of sense. I guess he's trying to backtrack from such a ridiculous statement.
it makes a lot of sense. The same type of logic that Barack employed by stating "don't jump to conclusions" may have been used within the military in deciding not to further investigate Hasan.
I'm referring to your considering Barack's judgment and his person as being two separate entities as to what makes no sense.
There is an issue here, this guy was under surveillance, and an FBI background check was ran. but apparently the property authorities weren't informed
That makes no sense either because Obama made that statement in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. What you are saying is that somehow Obama's statement retroactively influenced the military long before the shooting even happened or Obama was president.
Is this your speculation or can you support it? I've stated why earlier that political correctness has little to do with why Hasan wasn't discharged and have yet to see any evidence, ie a memo or statement that Hasan wasn't discharged because it would offend or be discriminatory to Muslims, to support that political correctness was a reason not to discharge him. I'm not a fan of political correctness in terms of it censoring speech but at the same time this argument against political correctness in this situation seems like politicizing this situation to score ideological poiints.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6716290.html Doctors had concerns on Fort Hood suspect Associated Press Nov. 12, 2009, 12:35AM Doctors overseeing Nidal Malik Hasan's medical training discussed concerns about his overly zealous religious views and strange behavior months before the Army major was accused of killing 13 colleagues and wounding 42 others in last week's shooting rampage at Fort Hood. Doctors and staff viewed Hasan at times as belligerent, defensive and argumentative in his frequent discussions of his Muslim faith, said a military official familiar with several group discussions about Hasan. The official was not authorized to speak about the meetings and spoke on condition of anonymity. Nearly one week after the shootings, questions are also being raised about accounts of what happened during the rampage. One witness is challenging the military's account of the actions of the Fort Hood police officer credited with stopping the gunman. The revelations about the concerns that Hasan's superiors had at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington before sending him to Fort Hood come amid a growing debate over what warning signs officials might have missed before the massacre. A joint terrorism task force overseen by the FBI learned late last year of Hasan's repeated contact with a radical Muslim cleric who encouraged Muslims to kill U.S. troops in Iraq. The FBI said late Wednesday that the task force did not refer early information about Hasan to superiors because it concluded he wasn't linked to terrorism. The major remains under guard in a San Antonio military hospital. His attorney, John P. Galligan of Belton, said Wednesday that he has received e-mails and calls with what could be perceived as death threats. “There were some of concern that my paralegal received here,” Galligan said. “I've asked that she pass them on to the local police and ask that they keep my place under surveillance.” Galligan said some of the calls ask, “How could you do this? You ought to get what the other people got.” In Killeen, the psychiatrist's apartment was open to the media for the first time Wednesday afternoon. The clock on a foldout table — the only furniture in the apartment — snapped on at 3:55 p.m. with a woman's voice singing, in Arabic, the afternoon call to prayer. Resting next to a roll of paper towels and 22 coins, mostly Jordanian and a few from Israel, lay a book: Dreams and Interpretations by Allamah Muhammad Bin Sireen. A white prayer cap sat on the table. An empty plastic container for a LaserMax model LMS-UNI gun sight rested on the table near the clock. A shoebox contained prescription medications: bottles of benzonatate, a prescription cough medicine, and chlor- pheniramine, an antihistamine, from Walter Reed Army Medical Center; promethazine, an anti-nausea and antihistamine medication, from Wilford Hall Medical Center; and Combivir, an HIV medication sometimes used to treat health care workers who were exposed to HIV-positive blood, from Lackland Air Force Base. Hasan told the apartment manager on Nov. 4 that he was due to deploy to Afghanistan on that Friday. He gave Qurans to two next-door neighbors and a third woman. Authorities believe that the following day, Hasan entered a Fort Hood deployment facility and started firing. Two senior military officials said Wednesday the Pentagon has found no evidence that Hasan formally sought release from the Army as a conscientious objector or for any other reason. Relatives have said he wanted out. Hasan had complained privately to colleagues that he was harassed for his religion. But there is no record of Hasan filing a complaint with his chain of command regarding any harassment or any record of him formally seeking release from the military, the officials said. Varying accounts The witness challenging the military's hero account, who asked not to be identified because it could damage his military career, has been interviewed by the Defense Criminal Investigative Division. He said Hasan wheeled on Sgt. Kimberly D. Munley as she rounded the corner of a building and shot her, putting her on the ground. Then Hasan turned his back on her and started putting another magazine into his semiautomatic pistol, the witness said. Senior Sgt. Mark Todd rounded a corner, saw Hasan fumbling with his gun and shot him, the witness said. The New York Times and Sig Christenson and Guillermo Contreras from the San Antonio Express-News contributed to this report.
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