[Tallguy]

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.

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.

[xzins]

I can’t imagine a policy that would “in the clear” specifically state that a member of a minority religion was to have serious infractions ignored.

That would be an illegal policy and prosecutable.