Senator Joe Lieberman To Go Ahead With Investigation Of Government Failures That Led To Fort Hood Massacre Despite Obama Objection

Rueters reports that two "U.S. senators vowed on Wednesday not to interfere with a criminal probe of the Fort Hood shootings but said they must move ahead with their own hearing into the rampage. Joe Lieberman, an independent who heads the Senate Homeland Security Committee, and the panel's top Republican, Susan Collins, want to know if the U.S. military and law enforcement agencies missed warning signs. The two said they also wanted to determine if authorities shared relevant information before shots rang out at the Army base in Texas on November 5, leaving 13 dead, dozens wounded and an Army major, Nidal Malik Hasan, a Muslim born in the United States to immigrant parents, charged with the massacre."

Lieberman says he supports investigation outside of Congress, that he looks forward to their outcomes, and has "no intention of interfering with them."

"But that does not mean that the rest of us, including the Senate Committee on Homeland Security, can just sit back and watch," Lieberman said. The senator said his committee had a responsibility "to determine whether the federal government could have prevented the murders at Fort Hood."
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