Hasan's Supervisor Warned Army In '07

[cali]

by Daniel Zwerdling


In May of 2007 Dr. Scott Moran, the chief of psychiatric residents at Walter Reed, outlined his concerns about Hasan in a memo.
Read The Memo

Read a transcript of the May 2007 memo obtained by NPR in which Dr. Scott Moran, the chief of psychiatric residents at Walter Reed, outlines his concerns about Hasan:
The 2007 Memo About Maj. Nidal Hasan
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November 18, 2009

Two years ago, a top psychiatrist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center was so concerned about what he saw as Nidal Hasan's incompetence and reckless behavior that he put those concerns in writing. NPR has obtained a copy of the memo, the first evaluation that has surfaced from Hasan's file.

Officials at Walter Reed sent that memo to Fort Hood this year when Hasan was transferred there.

Nevertheless, commanders still assigned Hasan — accused of killing 13 people in a mass shooting at Fort Hood on Nov. 5 — to work with some of the Army's most troubled and vulnerable soldiers.

The Damning Memo

On May 17, 2007, Hasan's supervisor at Walter Reed sent the memo to the Walter Reed credentials committee. It reads, "Memorandum for: Credentials Committee. Subject: CPT Nidal Hasan." More than a page long, the document warns that: "The Faculty has serious concerns about CPT Hasan's professionalism and work ethic. ... He demonstrates a pattern of poor judgment and a lack of professionalism." It is signed by the chief of psychiatric residents at Walter Reed, Maj. Scott Moran.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120540125
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[atreides1]

1. This a defense lawyers dream

Just keep the leaks coming.

He'll be a great defense witness, to show how incompetent the army is and how the chain of command did nothing to nip this in the bud when they had the chance.

[depakid]

2. So the premise of that is that the guy's insane and incapable of distinguishing right from wrong?

[Fumesucker]

3. FUBAR.... Hasan gets promoted to Major with something like this on his record?

Fuck up and move up.

Jebus X Keerist on a psychedelic pogo stick, there is something seriously broken in our military for this to happen.

Hasan was clearly a red hot potato that no one wanted in their command but no one wanted to take the political flak for separating from the service.

[cali]

4. that's it in a nutshell. The warning signs weren't just signs, they were blaring

sirens.

[EFerrari]

5. Not only the military. FBI decided he was all right, too, remember?

[malaise]

6. Thank Bushco

for their incompetence in every fugging sphere.

[Fumesucker]

7. Actually I don't, I've avoided this topic mostly because it enrages me

But I appreciate you pointing it out.

[EFerrari]

8. They looked at his email about a year ago and decided he was no threat.

FBI data on Fort Hood suspect is scrutinized

WASHINGTON — The FBI's effort after 9/11 to improve terrorism investigations will face sharp scrutiny this week as Congress begins probing whether authorities missed or ignored warning signs about the Army major charged with murdering 13 people at Fort Hood in Texas.

Inquiries will focus on FBI-led terrorism task forces that were expanded after 9/11 to unite federal and local authorities in 100 cities. The Joint Terrorism Task Force is "our nation's front line on terrorism," the FBI says on its website.

Yet lawmakers are questioning the task force that investigated Maj. Nidal Hasan in December and did not tell the Pentagon that he had exchanged 10 to 20 e-mails with a radical Muslim cleric.

"A lot of the dots were not connected," Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said Sunday on CBS' Face the Nation. Leahy's committee will question Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday. The Senate homeland security committee opens its probe Thursday.

http://www.usatoday.com/NEWS/usaedition/2009-11-16-forthoodprobe16_ST_U.htm?csp=34