Preventable Tragedy?

" And so as we learn about the charges against major beside authorities caution that the investigation is far from over. And we are looking at every possible angle in this case. We're working closely -- numerous agencies. To get a complete picture of the entire event. And we are seamlessly sharing that information with those agencies. But as the agency's work together in the aftermath of this devastating attack there are new questions. About the months and years leading up to it. Including whether or not this tragedy. Could have been prevented joining me in Afghanistan had injured his deputy editor of the wall street journal editorial page and in his. Weekly column wonderland he wrote today said Dan is a great piece. It raises a lot of issues. Broader issues about why. This incident happened at Fort Hood but Tommy in a sort of what you think that we need to take away from this event in order to prevent from happening yet."

" Well Martha the one thing we seem to be taking away is that there was a political correctness Solomon tour. Fear of you know. Are getting Muslims -- well I think there's something to death for shore. But senator Joe Lieberman is going to hold hearings into it next week I think those are very important here -- I'm glad he's doing it. But it will be a mistake if they get diverted into this issue of political correctness. And trying to find which bureaucracy to blame first of all -- policy fix for political correctness it's a state of mind. I think what happened here is you have to understand that the analysts that the appeal lying in the army. Whose job it is to protect us not just with this time. Put across the board. These are Americans like everybody else they're normal people robots do not do this job. And like the rest of us they watched the the United States congress and political class spent the last seven years. Fighting from 9/11 on words in the passage of the Patriot Act. Flight -- after days over the Patriot Act five cents surveillance. Guantanamo. What are they supposed to make of that when judgment time columns what does the what do the American people want from them."

" Now -- a pull up a quote from your piece. That I thought. And really set it all it says the reason that we erected apparatus. Of surveillance and intelligence in what some don't wanna call the war on terror. Is to avoid dis dat and bat mobile -- you're really going back to. You know enhanced interrogation. All of these issues the investigation of our CIA who carried out some of those tactics and saying that we've created this kind of culture in America and that makes it bad in some ways to do the things you believe we need to do to keep ourselves safe and this is what we yet."

" Yup I mean I think what we're very very worst decisions the President Obama made on taking the presidency was to tell attorney generate general holder. That he should initiate the study. Before the CIA agents newly enhanced interrogations. Were in fact criminally liable that had to a settlement. Send the worst in more Al message to everybody who's in that business not just interrogators. The guys were sitting out there having to make judgment calls worry about. -- going to be liable in some way do I have to hire a lawyer for details call this article team received that decision right away at -- at ways to keep the country's -- and I think. Basically what we've learned here. Somehow we have to lower the hurdle. On the basis for having our security people act rather than hesitate."

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" Yet here they come across news news and conversation here because it's important KGB is dead Riggs a good point lead. It is darkly who's talking by the fact that if this this political correctness run -- the original policy fix for that. Eight years after 9/11 it seems like the left hand still not talking the right handed it's a little confusing for the American people."

" Oh sure and you -- military person personnel you stick close to file an infant Rosen vegan fuzzy -- what are you going to do your gonna hesitate you're not gonna go ahead. And I think that the important thing to remember about the war there were currently fighting it's different than the Cold War we don't know who our enemy as we don't know what it looks like. We're the only way we can have a detective was a spy satellites it's going to be human intelligence and if we tie. First the right hand and then a left hand behind -- back we'll never see the next one coming we're gonna go."