re: #22 Bubblehead II

Robert Gates to announce Pentagon probe of Ft. Hood shooting rampage

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates this afternoon will announce the start of a sweeping Pentagon review of events leading up to the Ft. Hood rampage, a probe that will examine whether military officials could have taken more aggressive preemptive action against the accused killer and, if so, why they didn’t, officials said today.

I always dislike these ‘probes’ that tend to divert the blame from the perpetrator and do a ‘Monday Morning Quarterback’ job. It winds up trying to prove that ‘someone should have known’ that he would do this heinous act. I have not seen any memo that indicated that Hasan was likely to go on a shooting rampage against his fellow soldiers. Incompetence and inappropriate injection of religion seem to be what his superiors were concerned with.