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“I can understand immunity from events happening on the battlefield but not such gross negligence on their base here at home.”

Why do you assume that Army officials have not attempted to deal with this terrorist?

Sit back and think this over for a few minutes. Service members had complained about this guy's statements, so Army officials were aware of the problem. Since he's a major you can bet that any complaints about his duty performance or anti-American statements were made known to higher ranking officers, and its highly likely flag level officers had been made aware of the complaints.

When a field grade officer...especially a minority or woman...gets a “unsat” fitness report, alarm bells go off much further up the chain of command. The rater (supervisor) and the rater's rater (two levels of supervision up) were involved in writing and approval of this fitness report. They had to justify their conclusions about this officer to their superiors.

The FBI knew about this Muslim? How do you think they got involved? Do you think for one minute that once the FBI started looking into this guy that they didn't talk with his Army leadership? Assuming the FBI did speak with his supervisory chain...and I do make that assumption...you can bet with 100 percent certainty that his leadership hearing that the FBI was investigating an active duty Army officer under their command sent off even bigger alarm bells, and that the knowledge of that fact went way, way up the chain.

I think this story has a final chapter that is much, much uglier than anything we've seen or heard to date. And I'll bet that the Sandy Berger's “twin sister” started shredding documents while the killer's gun was still smoking, and has continued for days afterward to try to cover someone's tracks. And these tracks are big.

Unfortunately, I don't think there are any journalists left in the US who would listen to “Deep Throat”.