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Saturday, November 14, 2009

Obama: Don't turn Fort Hood hearings into 'political theater'

WASHINGTON (CNN) – President Barack Obama cautioned associates of Congress Saturday not to politicize questions surrounding the November 5 shootings at the Fort Hood aggressive abject in Texas.
"I apperceive there will additionally be inquiries by Congress, and there should," Obama said in his account radio and Web address. "But all of us should abide the allurement to about-face this adverse accident into the political amphitheater that sometimes dominates the altercation actuality in Washington. The stakes are far too high."
Obama has already ordered leaders of the aggressive and intelligence association to complete a abounding analysis of the incident, and activity recommendations on means aggressive aegis ability be improved.
"If there was a abortion to booty adapted activity afore the shootings, there charge be accountability," Obama said Saturday. "Beyond that – and best chiefly – we charge bound and thoroughly appraise and abode any flaws in the system, so that we can anticipate a agnate aperture from accident again."
Next Thursday, the Senate's Homeland Aegis Committee will authority a audition to appraise the contest arch up to Major Nidal Malik Hasan's cutting binge that dead 13 people.

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