Posted on 11/14/2009 3:35:45 AM PST by BunnySlippers
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Congress to hold off on any investigation of the Fort Hood rampage until federal law enforcement and military authorities have completed their probes into the shootings at the Texas Army post, which left 13 people dead.
On an eight-day Asia trip, Obama turned his attention home and pleaded for lawmakers to "resist the temptation to turn this tragic event into the political theater." He said those who died on the nation's largest Army post deserve justice, not political stagecraft.
"The stakes are far too high," Obama said in a video and Internet address released by the White House while the president he was flying from Tokyo to Singapore, where Pacific Rim countries were meeting.
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Just when I thought it couldn’t get worse. He is doing everything he can to prove that he hates this country for its Judeo-Christian foundation.
Separation of powers? Will Nancy & Harry tell Obama to bugger off?
Parallel investigations can “muddy up” the waters.
“”where Pacific Rim countries were meeting.””
See everyone - I do have the power to realign the world.
I have seen this very type in the work force, you usually see them with clipboard walking fast, (so as not to be asked any questions), and not accomplishing anything. Most likely has tenure, a postal supervisor or a union boss, or a family dunce who works for a Corp.
Although they can't actually do any work they are vicious and will do anything to protect their inabilities.
But the questions of why no action was ever taken concerning his behavior will not be investigated honestly by the very bureaucracies that were responsible for evaluating him before he murdered 14 people.
Your “why” is not relevant to the prosecution. Let the murdering jihadist be tried and sentenced first. After that let our congress critters investigate how he was allowed to stay in, maybe changes can be made.
He did owe the Army for 6 years of education. Mere suspicion would not have been enough to kick him out. His actions should have caused him not to get a security clearance, it would have blocked it back in my day but I’m not current on today’s guidelines. It would be unusual for his fellow doctors to report him as a danger - after all he was a doctor and sworn to save, not take lives. In any other branch he would have been reported.
Senior flag officers are often political animals. Their promotions have to be approved by both the President and Congress. Company grade officer promotions are nearly automatic, field grade promotions will be looked at a little closer, but not individually scrutinized very closely.
The list (extensive) doesn’t include golfing trips, Camp David, Broadway, etc.
It’s obvious Emanuel, Axelrod, Holder and various underlings run the Country.
They put their decisions on a harddrive for the teleprompter.
Then they trot Zer0 out to read the pronouncements.
And the Left used to complain about Reagan delegating. /s
On an eight-day Asia trip, Obama turned his attention home and pleaded for lawmakers to “resist the temptation to turn this tragic event into the political theater.” He said those who died on the nation’s largest Army post deserve justice, not political stagecraft.
Obama then did an about face and cancelled KSM’s NY court date and filed a military tribunal.
I agree. Let the Army and whomever is involved do their work first. It would be awful if Congress messed up the case.
You're trying to frame the case so that only your concerns matter. The prosecution is not the only important matter to be handled. In fact, investigating the influence of political correctness, how the Hasan case was or was not handled, is just as important as the prosecution. It's more important for the future of our military personnel, and how such things might be handled in the future.
And within about the same 24 hour period, we have these two actions from Obama:
1. The decision to try KSM in New York City, an action which will open up most everything the US has done in the war on terror for the use of the most leftist lawyers in the US. Obama wants to expose as much as possible in this case.
2. And, he also wants to control what information is made public in the investigation of Hasan, and how his behavior was evaluated before his murderous spree. He wants this handled within the executive branch, with no independent inquiry from members of Congress he cannot control. He wants a conclusion that Hasan was just a highly stressed individual who "snapped", and of course it had nothing to do with any particular religion.
Obama appreciates your assistance in this matter.
Is there no one in the press who will ask our king what “stakes” he is referring to? What Obama really wants is a delay of months, aware that the attention span of most Americans is about four days. What is obvious is that the FBI, Army and Homeland Security fouled up; and there does not seem to have been the exchange of information between the intelligence community elements that was promised us with the recent creation of a new layer of bureaucracy.
The prosecution is not the only important matter to be handled. In fact, investigating the influence of political correctness, how the Hasan case was or was not handled, is just as important as the prosecution.
I’d put the priority to the prosecution. After that investigate the PC matter. I don’t want to see anything interfere with his prosecution.
There have been few cases in history with so much evidence against the accused. Congress needs to investigate how the information concerning Hasan was handled before he went on his murderous spree. Nothing about that will affect the prosecution.
But Obama does appreciate your efforts to prevent any investigations outside his control, and before the executive branch is able to review all the information and suppress or conveniently misplace whatever they do not want to see the light of day. Presidents rarely want any executive branch matters that happened during their term in office to be investigated by Congress.
“Obama Urges Congress To Put Off Fort Hood Probe [!!!]”
Sure, give all the unindicted co-conspirators that gave Hasan a
pass for year-after-year time to shred documents/notes, create
some new back-dated documents, and talk to each other to get their
stories straight.
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
(although I’m not thrilled about a bunch of Democratic legislators
using the TV to try to sound like sane people...while they’d be
using TV to stand with Major Hasan and CAIR if he’d been eased out
of the US Military.)
Why isn’t this thread in “breaking news”?
But Obama does appreciate your efforts to prevent any investigations outside his control ...
You seem to misread my posts. I don’t want to prevent any investigation, at least twice I clearly stated it should be investigated by Congress - but after trial. Why would anyone wish to delay prosecution? Why woukd anyone wish to interfere with the prosecution? Why would anyone wish to give him the defense of “pretrial publicity”?
I want to see him tried, convicted and executed. Let the “why” be investigated after trial.
Yes, this is the guy who stated point blank that “yes, the cops acted stupidly” without bothering to learn one thing about what happened.
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