Fort Hood Shooting

on November 5 an army colonel and psychiatrist Nidal Hasan shot and killed 13 soldiers at Fort hood in Texas. His main responsibility had been to treat post-traumatic stress in those returning from war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. He had repeatedly tried to break doctor patient privilege and turn over information about those under his care to be prosecuted for war crimes. It is believed that he had frequently corresponded to radical imams in the US and abroad via the internet. This has raised worries (as expressed in this WSJ article) that protection of expression could inhibit law enforcement agencies from addressing the self-radicalization of home-grown terrorists through increasingly accessible outlets of extreme ideology. This has also led some populists like Sarah Palin to call for more profiling of Muslims working in government positions. That liberal "political correctness" led to officials ignoring warning signs before this tragedy, has become a major talking point for some conservatives