WASHINGTON (AP) _ The Obama administration today agreed to to provide some of the materials a U.S. Senate committee wants on last year’s Fort Hood shooting rampage.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee had demanded that the Pentagon share documents and witnesses by today.
An unusual Senate subpoena sought material the Pentagon claims would jeopardize prosecution of the suspect, Major Nidal Hasan, who remains in custody in Texas. The Army psychiatrist has been accused of killing 13 people in November at Fort Hood.
The Pentagon and Justice Department today sent a letter to the committee — offering a compromise.
The committee would be able to read Hasan’s personnel file and a secret addendum to the Pentagon’s internal report on how it failed to head off the shootings — despite Hasan’s behavior and apparent religious radicalization.