Ultimatum!

Potential evidence Hasan was an AntiWar activist, and killed 13 US Soliders in revenge for Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

In what is being described as a further rift with his former Party, Independent Senator Joe Lieberman, Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, is now threatening subpoenas of Obama administration officials to be issued on Monday, if more information on the Ft. Hood shootings is not immediately made available. He is joined by ranking Republican, and fellow New Englander Susan Collins of Maine.

From The Hill:

At a press conference Thursday, Lieberman said he would give the administration until Monday to release information about the shootings and, if it didn’t, would start subpoenaing.

Lieberman and ranking Homeland Security panel member Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said they would issue the subpoenas to the Defense Department and Justice Department under their own authority and would seek full committee approval to take the administration to court if the information isn’t released.

A stern Lieberman said he and Collins have been stalled for five months in their attempts to seek answers in the Nov. 5, 2009, tragedy at the Texas military base, in which 13 people were shot dead. An Army psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Hasan, is accused of the murders, which Lieberman and others have described as an act of terrorism because Hasan had been in contact with Islamic clerics and may have acted out of opposition to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Further, Lieberman was quoted by the Washington Post:

"The painful fact is that 13 Americans died in the Fort Hood massacre," Lieberman said. "We owe it to them and their survivors and everyone else in our country to determine whether our government could have prevented their deaths -- and if so, why it did not -- so that we can make sure it does the next time."

Collins for her part accused the administration of "an inexplicable determination to stalemate and slow-walk our investigation."

Senator Collins, a staunch supporter of the US Military, has worked closely with her colleague Senator Lieberman before. They both co-sponsored the Collins-Lieberman Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act to codify recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. She has also been a tireless promoter of the Bath Ironworks in Maine, a Naval vessel restoration facility and shipyard. In 2003, she was one of the earliest Republican Senators to back President Bush's resolution to go into Iraq.