Sen. Joseph Lieberman says his homeland security committee will investigate the lapses that led to the deadly Nov. 5 shooting at the U.S. Army post in Fort Hood, Texas.Please contact us via telephone ONLY.We offer the Beijing massage and Shanghai massage! "Our aim, quite simply, is to determine whether there was evidence at different places in our government, which if brought together would have led people to effectively discharge Nidal Hasan from the military, and, therefore, prevented this murder at Fort Hood," Lieberman, who is chairman of the committee, tells NPR's Melissa Block. Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, is the man accused of carrying out the shooting earlier this hghuklgh month that killed 13 people at Fort Hood. He has been charged by a military court with 13 counts of premeditated murder. The Obama administration says no FBI or Army officials will appear before Lieberman's committee while Beijing massage the criminal investigation into the rampage is under way. Lieberman acknowledges that it will be difficult to proceed without cooperation, but he says he is confident that impasse can be resolved. Lieberman, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats, says he has held talks with Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and they will meet in the next few days to work out the ground rules for his panel's investigation."I think the administration will cooperate," he says. "We have different responsibilities, and each is important. "Theirs is to determine who murdered these people. ... We have a different responsibility, which is to determine whether there were people in the Army or the Justice Department or anywhere else in the federal government who could have handled this case differently."
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