While I do think the military wants scapegoats, I also believe that anyone who ever was a rater or senior rater of Hassan, who also knew of his problems, and who did not honestly evaluate him made a terrible error in judgement that has injured the US Army.
One doesn’t need to evaluate his religion to evaulate his professionalism, attitude, demeanor, prospects, etc.
Any rater or senior rater who can be shown to have known of Hassan’s extreme nature, and who nonetheless rated him highly, should have, at a minimum, a letter in their file zeroing out their rating scheme and stating that they are demonstrated incapable of professional evaluations of subordinates.
Is that a career killer? You bet. And with Hassan being a doc, and a major, that will nail an awful lot of colonels and a few generals, too. No way I can see, though, that this would go to the top of the military. Gen Petraeus, for example, is almost totally dependent on a man’s former commanders to give him a fair picture of any new man coming his way.
Hasan worked in the White House at one time and was known to Obama.
Hasan’s evaluation at Reed was so poor he wasn’t recommended for promotion but that was overridden.
I would like to know who ordered Hasan promoted to Major. My guess it was the White House.
Bro, many of them did just that. So where is the problem? With the policies that protected Major Hassan. Those policies were promulgated from the Pentagon. I haven't seen a list of the officers being disciplined, but I'm willing to bet that none of them worked in that rarified atmosphere.