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| Ubiquitous... |
 Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 5:37 am |
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ABC News has a fascinating new detail on the investigation of Maj. Nidal
Hasan, the alleged Fort Hood gunman:
Investigators believe Hasan's frustration over the failure
of the Army to pursue what he regarded as criminal acts by
U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan may have helped to
trigger the shootings.
"The Army may not want to admit it, and you may not hear
much about it, but it was very big for him," said one of
the federal investigators on the task force collecting
evidence of the crime.
His last effort to get the attention of military investigators
came on Nov. 2, three days before his alleged shooting spree,
according to the reports.
Colonel Anthony Febbo at Fort Hood reportedly told investigators
he was twice contacted by Hasan, on Nov. 2 and a week earlier in
October, about the question of whether he could legally provide
information on "war crimes" he had learned in the course of
psychiatric counseling he provided soldiers returning from Iraq
and Afghanistan. Col. Febbo told ABC News he could not comment
because of the on-going investigation.
His supervisor in the Department of Psychiatry, Captain Naomi
Surman, told investigators that Hasan raised similar issues
with her in conversations in October, according to documents
reviewed by ABC News.
Captain Surman told investigators that Hasan had formally contacted
military prosecutors to report patients he was evaluating, according
to people briefed on the exchange. She said Hasan signed his e-mails
with "Praise Be to Allah." Legal analysts say psychiatrists are
strictly bound by the rules of patient confidentiality except in
cases where they might become aware of crimes about to be committed.
Put aside the Muslim stuff, a red flag that military personnel seem to have
been carefully trained to ignore. Put aside even the bizarre accusations of
"war crimes," which are the sort of thing that in an earlier age could have
gotten you elected to the Senate from Massachusetts and even nominated as
president by the Democrats. If Surman's report is accurate, a physician under
her supervision was blatantly violating medical ethics. Why in the world
didn't she report him for _that_ before he allegedly went on his murder spree?
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