@gordian238: "Yet no one spoke up lest they be perceived as profiling or persecuting a 
minority. CYA got soldiers killed.
Report: Hasan Wanted Patient War Crimes Trials
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November 17, 2009
Dallas Morning News
Fort Hood massacre suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan sought to have some of 
his patients prosecuted for war crimes based on statements they made 
during psychiatric sessions with him, a captain who served on the base 
said Monday.
Other psychiatrists complained to superiors that Hasan's actions 
violated doctor-patient confidentiality, Capt. Shannon Meehan told The 
Dallas Morning News.
One day after the Nov. 5 attack that killed 13 and wounded 29, a Fort 
Hood official said she had never received complaints about Hasan's job 
performance. Col. Kimberly Kesling, deputy commander of clinical 
services at the base's Darnall Army Medical Center, also said he was a 
"hardworking, dedicated young man who gave great care to his patients."
Fort Hood officials did not respond to interview requests late Monday. 
They have declined in recent days to say anything about the major, 
citing the ongoing investigation. .
Meehan said he learned of Hasan's prosecution requests from another base 
psychiatrist. That psychiatrist could not be reached for comment Monday.
The revelations add to a portrait of Hasan as a man at odds with many of 
those around him  emotionally, religiously and ideologically. He was, 
by various accounts, lonely, paranoid and increasingly zealous in his 
fundamentalist Islamic beliefs. He had been writing e-mails to a radical 
cleric in Yemen who called the U.S. war on terror a "war against 
Muslims" and advocated killing Soldiers.
It wasn't clear Monday what information Hasan received from patients and 
what became of his requests for prosecution. ABC News, citing anonymous 
sources, reported that his superiors rejected the requests, and that 
investigators suspect this triggered the shootings.
Hasan may have been legally justified in reporting what patients 
disclosed, said Patrick McLain, a Dallas lawyer who specializes in 
military defense work and is not involved in the Hasan case. But it's 
impossible to be sure without knowing exactly what they said, he added.
"He was right on his authority to report it," said the ex-Marine, who 
formerly served as a court-martial judge. The Army teaches all service 
members that they have a duty to report evidence of war crimes.
Hasan's civilian lawyer in Central Texas, retired Col. John P. Galligan, 
did not respond to interview requests Monday. His client remains in a 
San Antonio military hospital, paralyzed from the waist down by police 
gunfire and facing premeditated murder charges.
Meehan, the Fort Hood captain, expressed skepticism with Hasan's 
requests that patients be prosecuted. "They're going in there confessing 
their pain and their guilt," he said, describing Soldiers' postwar 
visits to therapists. "He's trying to turn it into a war crime."
Meehan recently wrote a book called Beyond Duty, depicting his traumatic 
experience as a tank platoon leader in Iraq. It describes a strike he 
ordered that accidentally killed an Iraqi family with six children  
the sort of "collateral damage" that McLain said was clearly distinct 
from a war crime.
Later, an improvised explosive device left Meehan with a traumatic brain 
injury. He received therapy at Fort Hood from people other than Hasan, 
which he credits with saving him from crippling depression. He is 
retiring from the military, effective next week.
Meehan said one of his doctors tried to give Hasan a copy of the book 
last month. Hasan refused. The captain said he had previously avoided 
Hasan, who was one of a small crew responsible for interviewing Soldiers 
and writing up summaries of their condition.
"I heard he was not one you wanted to go to" because he didn't finish 
his work promptly, Meehan said. "Apparently the reason it took so long 
is he was turning it over to legal."
Meehan said one little-known consequence of the massacre is that Hasan's 
colleagues must re-evaluate every case he handled. Another challenge, he 
said, is persuading patients to keep opening up to therapists.
"I really hope Nidal's horrific actions do not give Soldiers pause when 
considering [whether] to tell their given stories," Meehan said.
President Barack Obama vowed Saturday to examine all the events leading 
up to the Fort Hood attack, including reports that the Army and FBI 
missed warning signs about Hasan's extremist sympathies. Several 
congressional leaders have promised their own inquiries.
A closed-door briefing Monday for the Senate Armed Services Committee 
was postponed at the administration's request, said committee spokesman 
Bryan Thomas.
Senate leaders and several committee chairmen are scheduled to receive a 
classified briefing this morning, said Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, 
chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
On Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to testify 
publicly before Leahy's committee. His appearance had been previously 
scheduled and wasn't directly prompted by the Fort Hood tragedy.
Sen. Jeff Sessions, the top Republican on the panel, said he would ask 
whether there was evidence Hasan was disloyal and should have been 
removed from the Army.
"Nobody should be advanced in rank and no one should be kept in the 
military if their loyalty is to anything other than the United States," 
the Alabama senator said."
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