It's about time. The Obama administration has been trying to stall any inquiries into this SOB since the very beginning. And don't even get me started on that trumped up phony report that Togo West and Vernon Clark put together!
The most transparent administration evah!(Hat tip to Nachum)
Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine.) on Monday issued subpoenas to the Obama administration regarding the shootings at Ft. Hood last year.
The two senators had threatened to subpoena the administratio after they made repeated requests for information on records on the shooting, which left 13 dead. (editor's note: One of this Terror Scumbag's victims was pregnant - correct death toll should be 14)
“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 senators have accused the administration of stalling a congressional probe into 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 for information, saying it does not want to reveal sensitive information about the incident, which is still being investigated.
The subpoenas indicate a major rift between the Obama administration and Lieberman, who caucuses with the Democrats.
Democratic leaders have indicated they do not intend to rescind his chairmanship due to the subpoena. (ed. note: Isn't that big of them?)
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