Senate committee subpoenas Fort Hood documents

  Joe Lieberman has followed through on his threat to subpoena the records on the Fort Hood terrorist attack. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has subpoenaed the administration’s secret documents on the attack.

  Both Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins believe that the administration is obstructing the investigation into the Fort Hood terrorist attack, and now they have subpoenaed the records on the secret investigation into the matter.

Unfortunately, it is impossible for us to avoid reaching the conclusion that the departments simply do not want to cooperate with our investigation

  The Pentagon is claiming that the release of these documents would pose a national security risk and are pondering their next move. One thing is clear here, nobody wants the committee or the people to see what is in those documents.

  The administration is hiding something. Whether it is the fact that they are not willing to admit to the public that Nidal Hassan was an Islamic extremist for fear of offending non-extreme Muslims, or whether the administration doesn’t want to admit there was a terrorist attack on United States soil under Obama’s watch, or whether the administration is trying to hide the fact that all of the warning signs were ignored and this could of and should have been avoided, it does not matter. What matters is the fact that this administration is trying to cover something up and we need to get to the bottom of this.

  If there was nothing to hide the administration would have been cooperating all along but they are not cooperating, they are hindering.

  Much to Barack Obama’s dismay, this issue is not going to go away until we learn the truth. The man who jumped to a conclusion about the Cambridge police when he said the police department, “acted stupidly” asked the American people not to jump to conclusions about the Fort Hood massacre, but the administration’s unwillingness to answer questions on this attack has led the senate committee and the American people to jump to conclusions. He could have avoided this by cooperating but he chose not to cooperate.

  The only conclusion that I can reach is that the administration is hiding something. It is going to be interesting to see how the Pentagon reacts to this subpoena. If they continue to obstruct the investigation they will only seem more and more duplicitous in a cover up of some sort.

  I am glad to see Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins back up their words with action. This president has claimed that he was going to be more transparent, but so far that has only been words. We will know for sure in the very near future if this administration is willing to follow up its words with its actions very shortly.