Obama tells Congress to back off Hasan probe
Another of Obama's ill-advised steps includes trying to discourage Congress from doing their own investigation of the Fort Hood jihadist (via Hot Air):
Update: here's a column about the case from Barry Rubin at the Gloria Center.
Others on the subject include Voting Female Speaks, Right Truth, Fire Andrea Mitchell, The Jawa Report, Daily Pundit, Cabinet Meeting.
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.If Congress doesn't investigate, it can run the risk of failing to fix more mistakes that could be prevented. What if there's more Hasans waiting in the wings to strike at innocent people? Also, the families of the victims at Fort Hood deserve justice, and that's what Congress is in the business for, to help their constituents. Therefore, Congress would do well to keep on with the investigation they're going to run, to prevent more disasters like the horror at Fort Hood from happening again.
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.
Update: here's a column about the case from Barry Rubin at the Gloria Center.
Others on the subject include Voting Female Speaks, Right Truth, Fire Andrea Mitchell, The Jawa Report, Daily Pundit, Cabinet Meeting.
Labels: islam, jihad, military, terrorism, United States, war on terror
