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| Fort Hood slayings prompt full Pentagon review | |
| 2009-11-17 | |
| The Pentagon will investigate its procedures in light of the Fort Hood shooting rampage, looking at how all the military services keep a watch on potential problems in their ranks, officials said Tuesday. The probe is still in the planning stages, but would be a broad examination beyond the particulars of Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan, officials said. Defense Secretary Robert Gates wants a unified probe that hits all corners of the Pentagon, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said. "This is shaping up to be a DoD effort," Morrell said, using shorthand for the Department of Defense. "This is larger than the Army. There are issues that need to be looked at department-wide, and the focus at this point is trying to figure out some of those questions," he added. The investigation would consider some questions Morrell described as immediate, although he would not be specific, and some he said will take longer to frame and sort through. Another official said there will be a fast look at whether the military has missed red flags that might signal there are other potentially dangerous service members out there.
The Army has also been preparing to launch its own internal probe. The Pentagon review could supersede that, although it is not clear whether the Army will still go ahead separately. Though it's still undecided who would do such a review and exactly what it would include, officials are working to make an announcement on it soon, a senior defense official said Tuesday on condition of anonymity because plans are still fluid. Morrell said there has ben no decision on the structure, time line or staffing for a review. "He's trying to come to a resolution of this as quickly as possible, but this has not been nailed down quite yet," Morrell said of Gates. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey had said earlier that the service would take a hard look at itself following the Nov. 5 shooting. | |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 "Larger than the Army" - First place to start is with the C-I-C ObaMuslim or ObaMunist POTUS and Admin, etc. at the top, then work top-down and tertiary. |
| Posted by: Blackbeard Glort9535 2009-11-17 19:12 |