President Barack Obama has requested the U.S. Congress not probe the terrible Fort Hood shootings that left 13 U.S. soldiers dead and 48 wounded.
Obama stressed he wants accountability, if it is found the authorities missed credible warning signs that Fort Hood shooter, Nidal Malik Hasan, was an extremist, with terrorist leanings, posing a danger to others.
Obama in Asia for political talks
According to multiple media reports, the FBI had many warning signs for up to one year prior to the attack, but failed to heed them all. The Judiciary Report is of the belief, Congress should probe the Fort Hood shootings.
An impartial, third party, investigative report is needed, commissioned by Congress, as the FBI is already attempting to do damage control, stonewalling the legislature. The truth needs to be revealed, as to what caused this horror to transpire, that has broken the nation's heart.
The FBI Stonewalling Congress About Fort Hood
Obama urges Congress to put off Fort Hood probe
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.
"The stakes are far too high," Obama said in a video and Internet address released by the White House while the president he was flying from Tokyo to Singapore, where Pacific Rim countries were meeting...
Obama demands accountability if danger signs missed
Saturday, November 14, 2009 - President Barack Obama vowed Saturday to hold accountable anyone who may have missed "potential warning signs" about the danger posed by Fort Hood massacre suspect Nidal Malik Hasan...
Shortly after the Nov. 5 shootings, Obama reportedly saw e-mails that Hasan had sent to a radical Muslim cleric in Yemen whom the FBI has investigated since the 1990s for possible terrorist ties. Federal authorities intercepted the e-mails about a year ago but did not pursue an investigation of Hasan, an Army psychiatrist. They said this week the communications were considered to be consistent with his post-doctoral research at a military university outside Washington, D.C...
