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...active member in the Robin Hood Foundation and the Mount Sinai Medical Center, both based in New York City, Dubin forged his first connection with the Kennedy School two years ago when he spoke before HKS students...
...call the Lieberman-Obama relationship ironic is an understatement. As chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Lieberman has launched investigations of the Army's handling of the Fort Hood massacre and what he calls the White House's "unsettling" failure to prevent the attempted bombing of a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day. Meanwhile, Lieberman opposed Attorney General Eric Holder's decision last November to try 9/11 co-conspirators in civilian courts, and earlier this year he rallied Republicans and Democrats to sign a letter to Holder urging him to abandon the trials in favor of military tribunals...
...investigation following the Fort Hood shootings is a step in the right direction: the intention, plainly, is to give the concept of command accountability some teeth. Five to eight Army officers, some as highly ranked as colonel, are expected to face disciplinary action for mishandling the threat posed by Hasan, according to the Los Angeles Times...
...more fundamental sense, however, the Fort Hood report, which was released on Jan. 13, is a baffling exercise. Its very name - Protecting the Force: Lessons from Fort Hood - signals its odd premise. Rather than seeking ways to identify and root out potentially homicidal military personnel, the study's aim is, in its own words, to determine "how best to defend against threats posed by external influences operating on members of our military community." That seems, at best, a misplaced priority. One of the people Hasan murdered and several he wounded were not members of the military at all, but civilians...
...military spends an extraordinary amount of time on improving what it calls "force protection" from outside threats. The Fort Hood inquiry is of a piece with that mind-set. Instead of exploring how to safeguard the mental health of service members, the inquiry demonstrates that the military has still not come to terms with the core issue: how best to prevent a troubled soldier from becoming an unlawful killer. Until it does that, any steps recommended to prevent another Nidal Malik Hasan or another Steven Green will be half measures at best...