DOD issues critical report on Ft. Hood

[sabra]

Source: MSNBC

From NBC's Jim Miklaszewski
NBC News has obtained a scathing report from Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who says that most of the Defense Department's safeguards were "unclear" or "inadequate" to identify the threat and prevent the mass shooting that killed 13 soldiers at Fort Hood in December.

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The Secretary's report found that:

-- DOD's commitment to the Joint Terrorism Task Force is "inadequate," which results in "inconsistent" coordination with the FBI. The Joint Task force knew well before the shooting that Hassan was in communications with an al Qaeda sympathizer and recruiter, but that was not reported to DOD or the military.

-- Commanders and supervisors do not always receive information about individuals who may commit violent acts.

-- Counterintelligence training does not address "emerging threats including self-radicalization," which may contribute to potential violence. Hasan was known to have gone off on Islamic-related religious rants, and expressed strong opposition to Muslims in the U.S. military serving in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

-- DOD policy prohibiting certain supremacist or extremist behavior is "unclear" and "limited" when it comes to individual behavior.

-- DOD does not have a comprehensive cyberspace counterintelligence program to alert authorities to "non-foreign intelligence" on potential threats.


Read more: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/04/15/2271548.aspx

[FreakinDJ]

1. Ft Hood always was a "Shit-Hole"

[Crowman1979]

2. Commanders and supervisors do not always receive information MY ASS!!!

They receive a LOT of information from his co-workers and the officers in charge of him did NOTHING!

It's just another case of the Pentagon covering top brass bee-hind as always.

[Historic NY]

3. Interesting they don't seem to even have a policy to control behavior....

Is the military becoming a breeding ground for malcontents.

[Crowman1979]

4. More like a breeding ground for ignorance.

[maddezmom]

5. kick

[kpete]

6. DOD issues critical report on Ft. Hood (DOD Safeguards "Unclear" or "Inadequate")

Source: NBC

DOD issues critical report on Ft. Hood
Posted: Thursday, April 15, 2010 11:07 AM by Mark Murray
Filed Under: Security, Jim Miklaszewski

From NBC's Jim Miklaszewski
NBC News has obtained a scathing report from Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who says that most of the Defense Department's safeguards were "unclear" or "inadequate" to identify the threat and prevent the mass shooting that killed 13 soldiers at Fort Hood in December.

-- DOD's commitment to the Joint Terrorism Task Force is "inadequate," which results in "inconsistent" coordination with the FBI. The Joint Task force knew well before the shooting that Hassan was in communications with an al Qaeda sympathizer and recruiter, but that was not reported to DOD or the military.

-- Commanders and supervisors do not always receive information about individuals who may commit violent acts.

-- Counterintelligence training does not address "emerging threats including self-radicalization," which may contribute to potential violence. Hasan was known to have gone off on Islamic-related religious rants, and expressed strong opposition to Muslims in the U.S. military serving in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

-- DOD policy prohibiting certain supremacist or extremist behavior is "unclear" and "limited" when it comes to individual behavior.

Read more: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/04/15/2271548.aspx

[EFerrari]

7. Well, they couldn't very well blame DIA or FBI, could they?

What a hack Gates is.