Firedoglake: Joe Lieberman to Conduct Hearings on Ft. Hood Shootings (But Not On Iraq and Afghanistan Shootings)
[Just when I think it's impossible to hate this man more...
The moral outrage surrounding this shooting is so completely hypocritical. Soldiers who were mostly destined for Afghanistan or Iraq where they had a very good chance of dying were instead killed before they left U.S. soil. And Ft. Hood has declared today a day of mourning for the shooting victims, when virtually every day soldiers are killed overseas without a day of public mourning. It's only sad to die HERE, and not THERE...? Propoganda at it's best... - Ed.]
The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs will seek to move forward on an investigation surrounding the mass shooting Thursday at Fort Hood Army base in Texas, Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.), the committee’s chairman, said today.
The chairman said the scope of the probe would address the motives of the alleged shooter Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan and whether signs of “Islamic extremism” were apparent, but missed or ignored. [more...]