Intelligence agencies intercepted communications last year and this year between the military psychiatrist accused of shooting to death 13 people at Fort Hood, Tex., and a radical cleric in Yemen known for his incendiary anti-American teachings.
Federal authorities dropped an inquiry into the matter after deciding that the messages from the psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, did not suggest any threat of violence and concluding that no further action was warranted.
Maj. Hasan was communicating with a radical cleric. Did federal authorities think they were exchanging falafel recipes?
Major Hasan’s 10 to 20 messages to Anwar al-Awlaki, once a spiritual leader at a mosque in suburban Virginia where Major Hasan worshiped, indicate that the troubled military psychiatrist came to the attention of the authorities long before last Thursday’s shooting rampage at Fort Hood, but that the authorities left him in his post.
Did political correctness prevent federal authorities from digging deeper or acting on information they found on Major Hasan?
We came across this definition of political correctness recently:
''Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by a complicit mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a pile of feces without soiling ones hands.''
That definition may well be correct because, in the case of Major Hasan, federal authorities were determined not to soil their hands and as a result 13 innocent soldiers died and dozens more were wounded.
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Update:
The radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, in the report above, has praised Major Hasan for the shootings at Fort Hood.
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