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"The military court only has to prove that Hasan killed 13 people and that should not be very difficult to do."

Civilian prosecutors don't have to worry about something called "unlawful command influence", but military prosecutors do - and not only at trial, but on appeal also. As RetiredArmy points out, Congress should stay out of it, at least until the investigation is complete, and I would add until the trial is over as well.

While it may be politically expedient and beneficial to hold all manner of Congressional hearing, to say nothing of the probably embarrassment to Obama, Hasan's case will take years to resolve, with a final conclusion not coming until well after Obama has left office. We shouldn't take the opportunity to take shots at Obama, at the possible expense of justice for the victims in this case.

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I hope there is more discussion about the legal issues that could arise should Congress start an investigation into Hasan.

What legal issues are of importance and what legal issues are not much more than periferal issues that do not matter.

I hate to say it, but if you have to balance a perfect military trial against bringing out the truth that this was yet another instance of Muslim Jihad against America, then I think bringing out the truth is more important.

Not only that, but I’m not sure that there IS such a thing as a perfect court martial in such a politically fraught case as this. It’s obvious that Hasan’s superiors were guilty of ignoring clear warning signs that he represented a dangerous threat, as well as being a lousy psychiatrist who could only damage his patients. Yet they promoted him instead of brooming him out.

We know that the FBI is in coverup mode, as usual, and I’m sorry to say that the same will be true of the military, especially with Obama and his flunkies exerting extreme pressure from above not to mention the Islamic angle.

Obama’s position is that Muslims are kindly patriots, who have done more to advance American civilization than Christians or Jews. If anyone at the very top is responsible for this disastrous mistake, it was Bush, not Obama. Bush and his idiot spokesman at the Pentagon, Gordan England, put into place the policy of advancing Muslims in the military as hard as possible, and damn the consequences. Which is not to say that Obama won’t be far worse, since he does it deliberately, and Bush through misplaced decency.

I'd think that the legal case against Hasan is fairly robust, there being no shortage of witnesses and physical evidence. The prosecuters should be able to secure a conviction regardless of the Congressional investigation.

One suspects that Obama's concern over Congressional hearings relates less to the legal implications and more to the political.

The role of congress would not be to investigate the crime itself - the prosecutors will do that. What congress needs to investigate iswhat was know about Hasan before the crime, who failed to connect the dots, and what role PC had in allowing this guy to slip through the cracks.

The prosecutors are not going to address these issues.

Congress should stay out of it, at least until the investigation is complete, and I would add until the trial is over as well.

I agree with that sentiment....

.....It's just that Obama and the RATS would jump at the chance to have a show trial if Bush were still POTUS, and now Zero wants to wait.

It's a game for the political folks in Washington. The hypocrisy is thick on this issue.