Faulty Clearance Procedures at Ft. Hood

Walter Pincus reports in today’s Washington Post that a panel set up to review circumstances that led to the Fort Hood shootings found that inadequate security investigations contributed to the tragedy.

Military and Department of Defense civilian security investigations were “incomplete, too limited in scope, or not conducted at all” and that investigations for Secret-level clearances, in the case of shooter Nidal Malik Hasan, were “unsatisfactory.”

Filed Under: Reform, Procedures