Posted on 04/19/2010 1:33:31 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Lieberman, Collins serve Obama administration with Ft. Hood subpoenas By Jordan Fabian - 04/19/10 03:58 PM ET
The Senate Homeland Security Committee Monday issued subpoenas to the Obama administration regarding the shooting at Ft. Hood last year.
Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and ranking Republican Susan Collins (Maine) had threatened to subpoena the administration by Monday after repeated requests to release records on the shooting, which left 13 dead.
“The purpose of the Committee’s investigation of the Fort Hood attack is to answer questions that are critical to our government’s ability to counter homegrown terrorism,” the senators wrote in a letter accompanying the subpoenas. "In order to answer those questions, we must assess the information that the U.S. Government had prior to the attack and the actions it took in response to that information."
The subpoenas indicate a major rift between Lieberman and the Obama administration, who caucuses with the Democrats.
Democratic leaders have indicated they do not intend to recind his chairmanship due to the subpoena.
The senators have accused the administration of stalling a congressional probe in the shooting. They say the departments of defense and justice have turned down four requests for documents over the course of five months.
Lieberman and Collins want suspected shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's personnel file and records on his efforts to contact radical Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
The senators say in the letter that the administration has until next Monday to reply to the request to "fulfill their legal obligation."
The Pentagon has pushed back against the request, saying it does not want to reveal sensitive information about the incident, which is still being investigated.
(Would like to have more Joe! hint... hint...)
Not THIS congress, but that is what we have an ection on November for.
Not THIS congress, but that is what we have an election on November for.
Just a cell mass to the MSM
Bad donkey!
Does congress have a police force capable of serving a warrant on “the administration?” ‘Coz a subpoena is gonna git itself ignored.
It is all a show that will go no where. Congress white washing every thing they investigate.
Makes one wonder if 0bama et al have something more to hide.
Wonder if one of 0bama’s spiritual advisers who send daily meditations is this same Imam who egged this terrible doctor to act.
You forgot to add the sneering quotes to that.
About Time!
Go Joe!
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