{"id":1374,"date":"2009-11-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2009-11-21T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T08:00:00","slug":"investigating_the_fort_hood_sh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1374","title":{"rendered":"Investigating The Fort Hood Shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/blogs\/beltway-confidential\/White-House-keeps-Fort-Hood-probe-in-the-family-70660072.html\">Washington Examiner<\/a>&nbsp;posted an article about the investigations into the Fort Hood shootings.&nbsp; President Obama plans to have the FBI, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Pentagon, intelligence and other officials investigate the incident.&nbsp; The goal is to see if there were some way the tragedy could have been averted.&nbsp; Democrats in Congress have bowed to White House pressure and cancelled their investigation.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The article points out:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><em>&#8220;&#8230;administration declined to send anyone to <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.securitymanagement.com\/news\/terrorism-expert-urges-caution-ft-hood-massacre-006437\"><em>a rogue congressional hearing<\/em><\/a><em> on the matter Thursday. Sen. Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate homeland security committee, noted that &#8212;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"MARGIN-LEFT: 40px\"><em>&#8220;it will be very difficult to fulfill our committee&#8217;s responsibility without the cooperation of the executive branch.&#8221;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Obama Administration is totally unwilling to cooperate with a Congressional investigation into the Fort Hood shootings.&nbsp; Since the FBI and the military were evidently involved in&nbsp;keeping an eye on the shooter before the incident, it seems odd that they would be asked to investigate their reasons for not taking action.&nbsp; This is one time&nbsp;that I think a thorough Congressional investigation is in order!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Washington Examiner&nbsp;posted an article about the investigations into the Fort Hood shootings.&nbsp; President Obama plans to have the FBI, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Pentagon, intelligence and other officials investigate the incident.&nbsp; The goal is to see if there were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1374\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}