After days of negotiations, the Pentagon and Justice Department informed a Senate committee that they would not comply with congressional subpoenas to share investigative records from the Nov. 5 shootings at Fort Hood, Tex., which killed 13 people. The agencies said that divulging the material could jeopardize their prosecution of Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, the accused gunman.
Comment: Alternatively, divulging the material could jeopardize their cover story that Hasan acted alone (or at all).
The Pentagon did budge in other areas, however, saying it had agreed to give the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs access to Hasan's personnel file, as well as part of an Army report that scrutinized why superiors failed to intervene in Hasan's career as an Army psychiatrist, despite signs of his religious radicalization and shortcomings as a soldier.
Leslie Phillips, a spokeswoman for the Senate committee, called the refusal by the Pentagon and the Justice Department to hand over all the requested material "an affront to Congress's constitutional obligation to conduct independent oversight of the executive branch."
She said the committee, chaired by Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.), was still deciding whether to pursue the subpoenas in court. The committee has complained that the Obama administration has been stonewalling it for months over its Hasan probe, prompting it to issue the subpoenas April 19.
Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said the Defense Department has tried to cooperate as much as possible with the Senate investigation.
He said that Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III spoke Friday with Lieberman and Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), the committee's ranking Republican, in an attempt to resolve the dispute but added that he didn't know whether the Obama administration's offer would be enough to satisfy the panel.
"We feel as though we have leaned very far forward," Morrell said. "This is as far as we are prepared to go."
Get a subpeona on the security company (possibly ADT) for the security cameras that were either turned off or away from the shooter/s.
Scenario: A gas was probably automatically activated by the Co2 sensors through the HVAC system which put people in the building into a mild relaxed state. When the shooting started Hasan was probably thrown a gun by one of the assassins and told to help stop these terrorists.
Hasan stumbled out of the building without a clue of what was transpiring having absolutely no idea who the 'bad' guys were - all he saw were lot's of guns.
The US Army should have their investigators all over this and can't imagine why they are not acting more aggressively on their attackers.
It was clearly a hit to ridicule and help destroy the US Military.