Opposing A Congressional Investigation Of The Fort Hood Shooting

Today’s New York Post posted an editorial by Dick Morris & Eileen McGann on President Obama’s opposition to a Congressional investigation into the shooting at Fort Hood.  He stated that we must “resist the temptation to turn this tragic event into political theater.”  This remark was made at the same time he is creating “political theater” in New York City by putting Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on trial there.  The trial in New York City will provide a goldmine of information to terrorists on how we collect information and how our anti-terrorism apparatus works.  A Congressional investigation into Fort Hood will not compromise our safety in any way.  Why does President Obama oppose it?

The editorial in the New York Post theorizes:

“Obama and his handlers know that the key to building favorable ratings is to control the agenda. And the more the national discussion centers on national security and terrorism, the more Republicans gain. So the Fort Hood terror attack comes at an awful time for an administration trying to turn the nation’s attention away from the terrorist threat….And, as evidence mounts that the FBI was on to Major Nidal Malik Hasan for years, the president is doing his best to stop Congress from finding out why these warnings went unheeded.” 

The attack at Fort Hood caught people in authority not heeding warnings.  No administration wants their shortcomings exposed, but in a democracy, that exposure is required (with the hopes of avoiding a repeat mistake).

The article suggests that President Obama has an agenda in bringing terrorist trials to New York:

“As he (President Obama) likely decides to send more troops to Afghanistan and eyes abandoning the “public option” to secure Senate passage of his health-care plan, Obama has to rebuild his credibility on the left. A public circus that focuses on waterboarding and interrogations could be just what he wants and needs.”

Politics may win elections, but it does nothing to keep our country safe.