Officers May Be Punished for Ft. Hood Rampage

fox news ^ | 1/15/10 | ap

[Nachum]

As many as eight Army officers may be punished for failing to heed warning signs and take action against suspected Fort Hood gunman Maj. Nidal Hasan, a U.S. official said Thursday.

First reported in the Los Angeles Times, an official familiar with a Pentagon review of the case, which will be discussed at a briefing Friday, said the officers who face discipline hold ranks of colonel and below.

[ApplegateRanch]

Yep,them damned captains and loootenants.I guess general casey got to write the memo personally.

Ye kenna blame the koptins an looouies! It be the serrrgents' fault fer nae settin'em straight!

[SWAMPSNIPER]

The fault is at the top, the source of all the PC crap!

[Sarajevo]

You’ve made an excellent point MD.

[Right Wing Assault]

If they HAD taken action, they would have been in even worse trouble than they are now for discriminating against the poor muzzlems.

[Joe Boucher]

In some ways this can be a good thing.
It will prompt many to report and act on info they garner about some of these moosies in the military who are obviously Anti American. Instead of being politically correct and letting it slide by.

[Red in Blue PA]

Does this include General "Diversity" Casey?

[castlegreyskull]

How dare these officers shoot at President Obama’s hero’s.

[driftdiver]

I am sick of seeing that pig lovers face on all these stories. He’s a traitorous pig and should only be shown in chains.

And he just took the careers of a few more soldiers in addition to the 14 lives.

[castlegreyskull]

How come the Navy SEALs aren’t put on trial in NYC instead of Iraq?

[ExSoldier]

And the WPPA (West Point Protective Association) strikes again. Classic CALLEY CYA syndrome. I'd love to know how many of the affected officers are graduates of West Point. Where does the blame here really belong? The real blame rests with the DoD and their terrified rabbit people who quail at the the thought of bad press from CAIR. Just a small step down from them are the folks at the Division and Corps level who act as the HAMMER to the DoD and write the efficiency reports for everybody else. But the ones who'll get the blame will be the middle level managers at the rank of major thru colonel and the poor LT's and CPT's who are always living in the valley when the brown stuff starts rolling downhill.

[Still Thinking]

While I’m happy to see something going on that might make it acceptable in the future for people to question Hasan II, this has a damned if you do, damned if you don’t feel about it. Plus it sounds like it might end up being mere scapegoating.