They Still Don't Get It

From PowerLine:

Defense department shows, rather than says, why the Fort Hood massacre occurred

On Friday, the Department of Defense released its report on the Fort Hood Massacre --"Protecting the Force: Lessons from Fort Hood." It is a disgraceful document. Indeed, Ralph Peters does not exaggerate when he says:

Rarely in the course of human events has a report issued by any government agency been so cowardly and delusional. It's so inept, it doesn't even rise to cover-up level.

The report attributes the fact that the military did not identify the threat posed by the Nidal Hasan -- it calls him "the alleged perpetrator" -- to bureaucratic shortcomings in the acquisition and sharing of information. As to accumulating information, the report finds that "current definition for prohibited activities [by members of the armed forces] is incomplete and does not provide adequate guidance for commanders and supervisors to act on potential threats to security." In addition, "there is no well-integrated means to gather, evaluate, and disseminate the side range of behaviorial indicators which could hlep our comomanders better anticipate and internal threat."

Second, the report finds a "gap" in the sharing of information. According to the authors, "the mechanisms for sharing potential indicators of internal threats with appropriate command channels are limited." The report calls for an end to allowing "bureaucratic concerns by specific entities over protecting 'their' information" to "prevent relevant threat information and indicators from reaching those who need it -- the commanders."

Apparently they could could not call political correctness by its name and could not admit it was a Muslim jihadist terror attack. Most frightening is the fact they probably did not ever realize that is what they are telling us.