Nobody wants an actual open trial. Many inconvenient facts would be revealed. Anybody ever wonder why this thirty five year old man could never find a woman “sufficiently devout” to make his wife. The Army investigators found things on his computer and apartment that the new gay friendly Obama military would not like publicized. Also the fundamentalists do not want to acknowledge this man as an Islamic hero. Just won’t do.
If he pleads, he lives. Bottom line.
Trial by court-martial would be extremely messy for all parties concerned, right up into the WH itself but especially the chain of command with its PC don’t-you-dare-criticize-Islam culture.
Hasan pleading to a lesser charge benefits everybody. Except the victims’ family members.