Senators Threaten to Sue Obama White House For Withholding Info on Ft. Hood Shootings
Liberal Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and RINO Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) today announced they are willing to take the Obama White House to court over their refusal to release information on the November 2009 Fort Hood shootings.
The Hill
Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and ranking Republican Susan Collins (Maine) on Thursday said they are poised to press their subpoena fight with the Obama administration into court.
Lieberman and Collins, speaking separately, both said the Justice and Defense departments have been uncooperative with their efforts to obtain more information about the November 2009 shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, that killed 13 people.
Both senators stopped short of saying they’ve made a final decision, but made it clear they are probably headed toward a court confrontation with administration lawyers based on doubt that the final round of negotiations would bring success.
“If they won’t respond, I think we have an obligation. It’s not easy to enforce a subpoena against the executive branch but I’m going to make the fight,” Lieberman said.
“If we yield to the executive branch’s argument that they can’t provide us these witnesses because there’s a criminal proceeding, we’re going to create a terrible precedent for future Congresses that will allow future administrations to just cite that. It makes no sense to me.”
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Wild Thing’s comment……..
Good God. This is the *Commander in Chief* who will not cooperate in the investigation of the Jihad murder of thirteen American service people. We sure know what side Obama is on and it not the side for our troops nor America.
Some times I wonder if Connecticut needs a full court press to replace Lieberman with a Republican and then he does something like this and remindes us that replacing our mutant other Senator with a conservative is more important. Joe may not be that smart or principled but he is the most honest Democrat in the Senate.
Avitar, good point. There are just a couple of things that we agree with Lieberman on and calling our enemy what they are is one of the big ones. How different it would be if he ONLY were a conservative and in our party, the way he speaks out is strong. But he is such a liberal augh!!!