Quick Fact: Limbaugh falsely claims Obama “does not want Congress” to investigate Ft. Hood shootings
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 18th, 2009 5:44 am by HL
Quick Fact: Limbaugh falsely claims Obama “does not want Congress” to investigate Ft. Hood shootings
Rush Limbaugh falsely claimed that President Obama “does not want Congress to conduct any kind of investigation” into the Fort Hood shooting.
From the November 17 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks’ The Rush Limbaugh Show:
LIMBAUGH: Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s military superiors repeatedly ignored or rebuffed his efforts to open criminal prosecutions of soldiers he claimed had confessed to war crimes during psychiatric counseling, according to investigative reports circulated among federal law enforcement officials. This story just keeps getting worse and worse.
And Obama will not provide witnesses for the Fort Hood hearing. Obama does not Congress to conduct any kind of investigation. He wants to let the military examination of this go through. He doesn’t want a political show trial, he said.
Fact: Obama said Congress “should” investigate, but noted that “[t]here is an ongoing [military and federal] investigation”
Obama: “I know there will also be inquiries by Congress, and there should.“ In his November 14 weekly address, Obama noted that there is an “ongoing investigation” by military and federal officials into the Fort Hood murders and “the sequence of events that led up to the shooting.” He added, “I know there will also be inquiries by Congress, and there should. But all of us should resist the temptation to turn this tragic event into the political theater that sometimes dominates the discussion here in Washington. The stakes are far too high.”
