Yet the Obama administration continues to refuse to cooperate while a bipartisian effort in the Senate is moving forward to try and begin a Congressional investigation of the Hasan's terrorist act.
Funny how Obama harped about wanting to see Bipartisian effort but he doesn't want this kind of cooperation at all. They'll ask him to cooperate or face subpoenas.
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A bipartisan group of senators began a concerted push Wednesday to get more cooperation from the Obama administration in its reviews of the Fort Hood shootings, which left 13 dead and a raft of questions about information-sharing among intelligence agencies.
In addition to the public hearings that Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) is set to begin Thursday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) demanded Wednesday that his panel receive the results of a White House review of agency investigations of suspect Nidal M. Hasan’s communications with a radical Muslim cleric who has ties to al-Qaeda.
Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, was unmollified, telling the attorney general: “The FBI did not pursue an investigation of [Hasan] because they concluded that the e-mails were consistent with his research at Walter Reed, and no contact was made with the Department of Defense. I understand that a thorough investigation will take time to complete, but we need to protect our troops now.”
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The Senate or Congress has no need to interrogate witnesses, that's the job of the Pentagon and the DoJ. They want to find out why and how Hasan was able to be in repeated contact with the enemy and ignored by officials for so long.
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Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is criticizing the Obama administration’s briefings on the Ft. Hood massacre, saying that information provided by the Defense Department and the FBI in a closed door meeting Tuesday “raised many troubling questions.”
The briefing, coordinated by the National Security Committee, for House and Senate leaders was scheduled after the administration bowed out of a closed hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee that was supposed to happen on Monday.
Collins, the ranking Republican on the Senate Homeland Security Committee, said she’s calling on the administration to work with the committee to cooperate with its investigation of the Nov. 5 shooting deaths at Ft. Hood. Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan has been charged with the crime, which Collins called “certainly” an example of home-grown terrorism.
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Why is the Obama administration purposely avoiding Congressional investigation in their effort to try and connect the dots? They have every right to demand cooperation from Obama administration on why homeland security and proper threat analysis failed. We had only one failure but at the cost of fourteen people who are dead along with dozens wounded.
11-19-2009, 10:57 AM
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