The Washington Post’s Spencer S. Hsu and Carrie Johnson report that White House counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan will review what federal agencies could have done to prevent the Ford Hood massacre. The FBI and Pentagon are faulted for not sharing sketchy e-mails with military personnel that were sent by Nidal M. Hasan, who is the alleged murderer of thirteen people. But it’s unclear if there are actionable lessons to be learned from the massacre. What we know so far mostly leads to the evergreen problem of national security agencies poorly communicating with one another.

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