Hoekstra demands investigation– claims that the administration is withholding information about the Fort Hood terrorist attack

  One of the ideas that I just can’t accept in regards to the Fort Hood shooting is the notion that the FBI, while the attack was still fluid, had already ruled out terrorism. It just does not make sence that the FBI would not look at the possibility of the shootings being a terrorist attack as well as looking at all other possible motives.

  I am of the belief that once the FBI was alerted to the situation at Fort Hood that they had already formed an opinion as to who the gunman probably was. After all they knew this man’s history and had been following him for months, they knew that he was dangerous. The fact that the FBI supposedly ruled out terrorism and the fact that the preliminary investigation has ruled out terrorism just does not make any sence to me from a logical standpoint.

  There has to be another reason. Perhaps the president knows what that reason is. Representative Pete Hoekstra thinks that there is more and he claims that the Obama administration is withholding critical information about the Fort Hood massacre. As a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Hoekstra is one of the people who gets briefed on sensitive information,(Kind of like when Nancy Pelosi was breifed on waterboarding and thought it was okay), so he knows what he is talking about.

President Obama said people should not jump to conclusions about what happened at Fort Hood, but the administration is in possession of critical information related to the attack that they are refusing to release to Congress or the American people,” Hoekstra said in a statement. “I intend to push for intense review of this and other issues related to the performance of the intelligence community and whether or not information necessary for military, state and local officials to provide for the security of the post was provided to them

  The president is clearly hiding something. Hoekstra has now  joined Joe Lieberman in calling for an investigation into this matter. These are two high ranking committee men as Lieberman heads the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee in the senate. This is not going to go away as quickly as the president had hoped that it would.

  Hoekstra continued:

Over the past 24 hours, I have been made aware of information from the intelligence community that suggests the possibility that serious issues exist with respect to the performance of U.S. intelligence agencies in connection with what appears to have been a terrorism-related attack on Fort Hood, Texas by Nidal Malik Hasan,” Hoekstra wrote. “I am disappointed that the administration has not been more transparent with the American people

  Hoekstra has even evoked the word “terrorism” only the second politician to do so. It is somehow comforting to know that at least a couple of politicians are willing to use the “T” word in this case.

  Hoekstra has asked the intelligence community for documents related to the Hasan case but the intelligence community has refused to release them.

Given the potential seriousness of these issues, I am troubled that the intelligence community has not been more immediately forthcoming with the congressional oversight committees and has refused to provide specific information I have requested to review in connection with this matter

  There is a massive coverup in place here, I don’t know who is being protected. I wonder if this goes all the way up to the president. I do know that the pressure needs to be kept up and that Hoekstra and Lieberman cannot back down until a full investigation has taken place.

   This act of terrorism should have and could have been avoided, all of the warning signs were in place and yet no action was taken to prevent it. Someone has to be held accountable and if that man is Barack Obama, so be it. If it is the FBI, the CIA, or Homeland Security, so be it. The bottom line here is that there were probably policies in place that either made stopping this attack impossible or made the people responsible for preventing the attacks too afraid of being seen as politically incorrect to do anything in time.

  The investigation needs to move forward, Americans deserve an answer as to how this could have happened because we certainly know that it shouldn’t have happened.