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USA Today
December 16, 2009
Pg. 5
Sen. Joe Lieberman, who chairs a Senate oversight committee, chided the Obama administration for not giving information to lawmakers probing the Fort Hood killings.
The Connecticut independent said his homeland security panel has not received the personnel file of Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist charged in the shooting spree Nov. 5 that left 13 people dead.
Lieberman and other committee members met behind closed doors with Pentagon officials to discuss military procedures for collecting and sharing information about U.S. servicemembers who might be a threat to others.
The briefing could have been open, Lieberman said, but the Defense Department refused to have its officials testify in public.
Lt. Col. Jonathan Withington, a Pentagon spokesman, said the Defense Department is following normal procedures when Congress has an interest in a subject related to a criminal investigation.
December 16, 2009
Pg. 5
Sen. Joe Lieberman, who chairs a Senate oversight committee, chided the Obama administration for not giving information to lawmakers probing the Fort Hood killings.
The Connecticut independent said his homeland security panel has not received the personnel file of Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist charged in the shooting spree Nov. 5 that left 13 people dead.
Lieberman and other committee members met behind closed doors with Pentagon officials to discuss military procedures for collecting and sharing information about U.S. servicemembers who might be a threat to others.
The briefing could have been open, Lieberman said, but the Defense Department refused to have its officials testify in public.
Lt. Col. Jonathan Withington, a Pentagon spokesman, said the Defense Department is following normal procedures when Congress has an interest in a subject related to a criminal investigation.