Posted on 07/13/2012 12:56:01 PM PDT by RitaOK
Cornyn to FBI Director: Make Fort Hood Report Public Upon reports that the independent review of the FBI’s actions in the Fort Hood shooting are going to be delivered to the bureau today, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) has asked FBI Director Robert Mueller to make that report available to the public as well.
The review team, led by Judge William Webster, is expected to submit a 150-page report, containing findings and 18 formal recommendations for necessary reforms in a range of areas within the FBI.
“This report is a matter of tremendous public importance, and I call on you to release an unclassified version of it as soon as possible. In doing so, I urge you to personally ensure that the contents of the report are not unnecessarily classified to shield their public release, because such action would come directly at the expense of transparency and accountability,” Cornyn wrote Mueller.
“The key findings and recommendations of this report must be made public, so we can glean any and all lessons from this incident,” he added. “The American people and specifically the Fort Hood community in Texas have the right to know.”
Thirteen were killed and 29 wounded on Nov. 5, 2009, when Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army psychiatrist, reportedly opened fire at the base. Hasan, an Islamic extremist, could receive the death penalty; his trial is scheduled to begin Aug. 20.
“Our government failed the brave Americans who were killed and wounded at Fort Hood that day,” Cornyn wrote. “The devastation inflicted on them was preventable, and we must make it a high priority to ascertain exactly where the system broke down and ensure it does not happen again.”
PING!
You simply aren’t paying attention to all that Senator Cornyn does. BTW, he’s not up for re-election this year.you should know that US Senators have 6 year terms.
With the Texas and Federal Prenatal Protection Acts he should be charged for all 14.
I always question a religious system which places more value upon Xerox paper than human life.
Yep.
Hi, doc.
Yes, you are correct that Cornyn is not up for re-elect for two more years. I didn’t mean to infer anything different, but to make the point that he is going to be seen polishing the silver with the Texas rubes at election time.
After all, the odds are that some new boots will be soon be arriving in DC after November and the no-surrender conservatives in Texas are restless. Cornyn surely knows this. With the s.o.b. conservatives Romney is in trouble. And so is Cornyn.
We think the GOP is imploded now with socialist Romney topping a Republican ticket, wait ‘til we go Third Party. The R’s will be either washed up for some time, or a more obvious arm of the Democrat Party.
It wouldn’t do any good. Patty Murray and Marie Cantwell. Read it and weep! You can’t get more left than that.
I hope they put up this display on the World Trade Center memorial.
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