White House stonewalling Congress on Ft. Hood terrorist attack
Republican Congressmen Mac Thornberry and Pete Hoekstra are expressing their concerns that Chairman Obama and his administration are restricting congressional access to information regarding Maj. Nidal Hasan’s terrorist attack on Ft. Hood.
The White House has been sitting on a preliminary review of the Fort Hood shooting since the end of November and refuses to share its contents with Congress, House Republicans say.
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have been pressing the Obama administration to either provide a copy of the review or brief them on it, arguing that it’s important for relevant members to be in the loop as the review goes forward.
“They’re stonewalling us. They won’t give us anything,” Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, told FoxNews.com. “They have just refused to brief Congress any further on this whole matter. … It doesn’t make sense to me.”
A White House spokesman said in an e-mail Wednesday that the reason members of Congress have not been briefed on the report is because, “We’re reviewing it.”
Oh I’ll bet they’re “reviewing” it. Reviewing here means making sure the facts mesh with the administration’s stance that this wasn’t a terrorist attack. Rep. Thornberry points this out as well:
“I don’t know if they don’t like the information, (if it’s) inconsistent with some sort of agenda or they’re just trying to keep a real tight hold and control it completely,” he said.
Why else would they be withholding this information? There is no other reason. But because you consistently read The Conservative Beacon you already knew that this was going on. I told you this would happen in a piece I wrote several weeks ago.
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