“Initial reports in a run-and-gun investigative story seldom age well”

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“Remember the hero female cop who shot Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood? Well, maybe she did and maybe she didn’t,” writes Stephen Engelberg. “And the purported view of Walter Reed officials that Hasan might be a threat? Shortly after the NPR story aired, the Washington Post asserted the possibility that Hasan might be ‘delusional’ was never taken seriously and addressed by his supervisors only ‘in passing.'”