Thread: Changing The Subject: Why Obama Nixed Ft. Hood Probe

Changing The Subject: Why O Nixed Ft. Hood Probe
By Dick Morris
November 17, 2009

Editor's Note: - This column was written with Eileen McGann.
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As he flew to Asia on Saturday, President Obama told the media in Alaska that he opposes a congressional investigation into the Fort Hood massacre, saying that we must "resist the temptation to turn this tragic event into political theater." Yet, even as he was posturing against political theatrics, he had just decided that the prosecution of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would proceed on the greatest of public stages -- New York City.

With the strict evidentiary rules in force in federal civilian courts, it is easy to see how the prosecution of Mohammed could morph into an indictment of the Bush administration's interrogation techniques and waterboarding. As in rape trials, the magnitude of the underlying crime (masterminding the 9/11 attacks) might well be lost as the defense puts the victim (in this case, the government) on trial.

It is not political theater itself to which Obama objects -- but theater that highlights issues that liberals would rather forget. He is quite content to let the Mohammed trial become the theater of the left. Perhaps even eager.

Obama and his handlers know that the key to building favorable ratings is to control the agenda. And the more the national discussion centers on national security and terrorism, the more Republicans gain. So the Fort Hood terror attack comes at an awful time for an administration trying to turn the nation's attention away from the terrorist threat.

As soon as the killing spree was over, Obama hastened to call it "an act of violence" -- obscuring the obvious fact that it was the most serious terror attack on US soil since 9/11. And, as evidence mounts that the FBI was on to Major Nidal Malik Hasan for years, the president is doing his best to stop Congress from finding out why these warnings went unheeded.

Even as Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.), the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee confirmed that the government knew of 10 to 20 e-mails between Hasan and a radical imam in Yemen -- who was urging the killing of American troops -- starting last December, Obama hastened to urge Congress to refrain from investigating why the danger signs were ignored.

The Obama administration has a clear agenda here:

1) Stop people from focusing on how his administration permitted the worst domestic terror attack in eight years.

2) Avoid a national airing of how liberal policies -- restraints on the intelligence community, political correctness in the armed forces -- might have inhibited the military from reining in Hasan.

3) Re-ignite a firestorm on the left and abroad against the aggressive anti-terror policies of the Bush administration.

Making all this particularly important for Obama are his other political needs.

As he likely decides to send more troops to Afghanistan and eyes abandoning the "public option" to secure Senate passage of his health-care plan, Obama has to rebuild his credibility on the left. A public circus that focuses on waterboarding and interrogations could be just what he wants and needs.

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As must Americans know by now, obama lies.

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It's getting hard for us to see Obama as the top Commander-in-Chief. It appears his peculiar deviant behavior concerning the military purpose is warping the treatment of our professionals in the armed services and weakening the future outcome for the U.S. His inexperience with the military really shows now doesn't it.

Originally Posted by ShockedinCalifornia

It's getting hard for us to see Obama as the top Commander-in-Chief. It appears his peculiar deviant behavior concerning the military purpose is warping the treatment of our professionals in the armed services and weakening the future outcome for the U.S. His inexperience with the military really shows now doesn't it.

I don't think its ' in-experience at all !! You don't grant the release for terrorist and protect one layed up in a military hospital that just killed and wounded 44 soldiers because of ' inexperience ',imo .

And the other one who sent them to war was no better, just not as obvious .

Agreed NoamNasty. (I was just being sly.) That's why I said "peculiar deviant behavior" meaning the sum of his actions so far.

hussain is a slippery fellow. as for how our military views him, our boys are smarter than he knows. he will not be able to use them against the citizens, if he tries to. and im thinking he will.