Friday, April 16, 2010

Lieberman Threatens Obama Administration With Subpoenas Over Fort Hood Shootings


Senator Joe Lieberman is reliably liberal on many social issues,but he's a pariah to many Democrats largely because he's essentially a decent, principled man and because he's a national security hawk really understands the jihad unleashed against the West:

Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) accused the Obama administration of stalling a congressional investigation into the Fort Hood shootings and threatened to start issuing subpoenas.

His vow opens a new rift with the White House for the Independent Lieberman, as well as the possibility of President Barack Obama’s first legal showdown with Congress.

At a press conference Thursday, Lieberman said he would give the administration until Monday to release information about the shootings and, if it didn’t, would start subpoenaing.

Lieberman and ranking Homeland Security panel member Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said they would issue the subpoenas to the Defense Department and Justice Department under their own authority and would seek full committee approval to take the administration to court if the information isn’t released.

A stern Lieberman said he and Collins have been stalled for five months in their attempts to seek answers in the Nov. 5, 2009, tragedy at the Texas military base, in which 13 people were shot dead. An Army psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Hasan, is accused of the murders, which Lieberman and others have described as an act of terrorism because Hasan had been in contact with Islamic clerics and may have acted out of opposition to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.{...}

Lieberman said he has had countless conversations with administration officials to seek access to information and witnesses, in order to scrutinize whether the shootings could have been prevented and how Hasan should be tried. He said he has been repeatedly “frustrated” in that effort, and feels obligated to “fulfill my responsibility” as the committee’s chairman.

“I regret to say our efforts to obtain this information necessary to conduct a thorough investigation of this homeland terrorist act have been met with much foot-dragging, very limited assistance and changing reasons,” Lieberman said. “In short, the response of the executive branch to this thoroughly legitimate congressional request for information has been inadequate and unreasonable.

Collins was just as stern, noting that Obama initially said he welcomed a congressional investigation into the shootings, and saying the committee “has taken step after step, made offer after offer and bent over backwards” to accommodate the administration’s concerns.

The administration has maintained that a congressional inquiry into the shootings would jeopardize the criminal case against Hasan, and has launched its own review of the incident. But Lieberman and Collins ridiculed that assertion on Thursday, saying their committee has previously held hearings that did not interfere with prosecutions and that they had pledged to work with the administration to keep certain materials classified.


It's pretty obvious what's happening here. One of the Obama Administration's commandments is 'thou shalt always protect, defend and appease Islam.' It helps to remember that when trying to piece together what's going on.

Hasan had been flagged as a disloyal Muslim radical long before the shootings, but it would have been career suicide for anyone in our military to act on it with Obama in the White House.That's not something the Obama Administration wants publicly displayed, so they are thus trying to eliminate any connection to jihad and Islam to all this and frame this as a simple whack job who went nuts for no apparent reason.

Here's hoping Lieberman and Collins get to the bottom of all this...so we have a chance of preventing it from happening again.








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