Major Hasan put up more red flags than the Politburo, but there’s always room for one more:

Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s military superiors repeatedly ignored or rebuffed his efforts to open criminal prosecutions of soldiers he claimed had confessed to “war crimes” during psychiatric counseling, according to investigative reports circulated among federal law enforcement officials.
On Nov. 4, the day after his last attempt to raise the issue, he took extra target practice at Stan’s shooting range in nearby Florence, Texas and then closed a safe deposit box he had at a Bank of America branch in Killeen, according to the reports… Diane Wagner, Bank of America’s senior vice president of media relations, said that her company does not “comment or discuss customer relationships”.

Which evidently is more than you can say for Dr. Hasan.

Captain Surman told investigators that Hasan had formally contacted military prosecutors to report patients he was evaluating, according to people briefed on the exchange. She said Hasan signed his e-mails with “Praise Be to Allah.” Legal analysts say psychiatrists are strictly bound by the rules of patient confidentiality except in cases where they might become aware of crimes about to be committed.

Imagine you’re back from a tour in Iraq or Afghanistan. The Army assigns you a shrink who tries to convert you to Islam, and looks on his “counseling” sessions as war-crimes interrogations.

The U.S. military appears awfully close to having colluded in Major Hasan’s abuse of his patients. But that’s okay, it’s not like they’re Gitmo detainees or anything . . .