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November 15, 2009 in Nation/World
Obama asks Congress to wait on Fort Hood investigation
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Congress to hold off on any investigation of the Fort Hood rampage until federal law enforcement and military authorities have completed their probes into the shootings at the Texas Army post, which left 13 people dead.
On an eight-day Asia trip, Obama turned his attention home and pleaded for lawmakers to “resist the temptation to turn this tragic event into the political theater.” He said those who died on the nation’s largest Army post deserve justice, not political stagecraft.
Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, was charged on Thursday with the shooting spree at Fort Hood last week.
Obama already had ordered a review of all intelligence related to Hasan and whether the information was properly shared and acted upon within government agencies. Several members of Congress, particularly Michigan Rep. Peter Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, have also called for a full examination of what agencies knew about Hasan’s contacts with a radical Muslim cleric in Yemen and others of concern to the U.S.
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rterrylynch on November 15 at 12:31 p.m.
An internal investigation is necessary but a truly transparent Congressional Investigation is necessary because we know this administration hides the truth.
The safety of this nation depends on it’s agencies assigned the job of prevention as well as sleuths following a trail of pop corn to the bad guys.
The folks that ignored the warning signs and red flags need to be replaced; we spend billions of dollars to smoke out the bad guys before they act and this guy was flashing a neon sign saying he was going to act out. The folks in charge in the Army, FBI, Homeland Security and others must be held accountable for allowing this sleeper terrorist to kill fourteen people and injure dozens more.