WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Congress to hold off on any investigation of the Fort Hood rampage until federal law enforcement and military authorities have completed their probes into the shootings at the Texas Army post, which left 13 people dead.
On an eight-day Asia trip, Obama turned his attention home and pleaded for lawmakers to “resist the temptation to turn this tragic event into the political theater.” He said those who died on the nation’s largest Army post deserve justice, not political stagecraft. “The stakes are far too high,” Obama said in a video and Internet address released by the White House while the president was flying from Tokyo to Singapore.
Obama already has ordered a review of all intelligence related to suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and whether the information was properly shared and acted upon within government agencies.
