Obama administration subpoenaed in Fort Hood probe
April 20, 2010
Reuters
4/19/2010
Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, an independent, and Susan Collins, the panel’s top Republican, took the action after the departments of Justice and Defense failed to provide the materials by Monday’s deadline.
The two senators have been trying for months to obtain documents and be provided access to witnesses that they say are critical to their investigation of the shooting spree at Fort Hood in November that ended with 13 soldiers killed and dozens wounded.
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Harold
Susan Collins, the top Republican on this Senate Homeland Security Committee, introduced in 2007 “The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act” S.1959. The bill called for investigating and tracking Americans and groups that might be prone to supporting or committing violent acts of domestic terrorism. Collin’s bill had the potential of driving lawful political and other activists underground. Perhaps creating the domestic terrorists Bush II said Americans needed to be protected from. Collin’s “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act” when closely examined, defined “homegrown terrorism” as “any planned act” that might use force to coerce U.S. Government or its people to promote or accomplish a “political or social objective.” No actual force need occur. Government would only need to allege an individual or group thought about it. Rep. Collin’s bill was often called the “Thought Crimes Bill.” The bill failed to pass after Americans became angry upon leaning about it. It is believed but not confirmed a Rand Corporation study provided input to the development of Collin’s “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act.