A Pentagon review panel urged the military to consider penalizing several officers for failing to adequately supervise Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, last fall.
The review also concluded that the military didn’t devote sufficient attention to the problem of soldiers who adopt radical religious or political views. The military’s defenses are aimed at threats from external enemies, such as foreign intelligence services, the review said.
“It is clear that as a department, we have not done enough to adapt to the evolving domestic internal-security threat to American troops and military facilities that has emerged over the past decade,” Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters Friday. “In this area, as in so many others, this department is burdened by 20th century processes and attitudes, mostly rooted in the Cold War.”
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