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As far as speculations that this was planned as a psychological operation, I don't see how this "benefits" the military or the war propaganda, or enables anything that the military couldn't get otherwise. It's very bad for recruitment and morale.
(Notwithstanding that they're trying to make the "best" of it, and that the right-wing wants to run with it in their usual way.)
If there were other shooters in a surprise attack, and Hasan was picked as the patsy for damage-control, I don't see how they'd successfully cover it up.
Other possibilities are conceivable, like that he was an experimental subject of some kind and it went wrong, but would need evidence.
Based on what's known I think it's very likely that a rampage killing was his very bad choice of a mutiny. (Mutiny and murder are not mutually exclusive, are they?)
That doesn't conflict with the possibility that his efforts to contact jihadis were known, as ABC reports. But perhaps he was protected and deployed to Afghanistan anyway, because he was being groomed as an intelligence asset.
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