FUBAR

NPR this morning, reporting on Major Hasan, the Army psychiatrist and shooter at Ft. Hood, interviewed his fellow psychiatrists and teachers in D.C. The teachers said his work was below standard, and included so much jihadist-type writing, that they worried about whether he was psychotic.

His fellow psychiatrists said they talked to each other about him. One said he asked the others if they thought he would ever commit fratricide. Another said he asked if they thought he might pass information to the jihadists if he were sent to combat zones.

They said that he was assigned to Ft. Hood because Ft. Hood has the most psychiatrists of any post and the Army figured if he didn't do his job, there would be plenty of others to pick up the slack, and in addition, there would be plenty of other psychiatrists to keep an eye on him!

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

UPDATE:

Raw Story picked it up:

Psychiatrists and medical officials who oversaw Major Nidal Hasan, accused of opening fire on fellow soldiers at the Fort Hood base in Texas last week, held a series of meetings between the spring of 2008 and the spring of this year to discuss serious concerns about his work and his behavior, NPR reported.

"Put it this way. Everybody felt that if you were deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, you would not want Nidal Hasan in your fox hole," one official was quoted as saying.

And yet, he was indeed being sent.

The officials who discussed Hasan's status were not aware -- as some top Walter Reed hospital officials were -- that intelligence agencies had been tracking Hasan's e-mails to a radical Islamic cleric since December 2008, NPR said.

[...]

Officials considered kicking Hasan out of the program but chose not to partly because sacking a doctor is a "cumbersome and lengthy" process that involves hearings and potential legal conflict, sources told NPR.

Officials also believed they lacked solid evidence that Hasan was unstable and were concerned they could be accused of discriminating against him because of his Islamic identity or views.

Incredible.

Here's the NPR report.