The United States Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has evidently lost patience with the Obama Administration over the Fort Hood shooting.

Five months ago Major Nidal Hasan massacred thirteen innocent people at Fort Hood. Congress is still trying to figure out how Hassan, who had known connections to Islamic radicals and expressed sympathies for suicide bombers, was not only able to remain in the military but was promoted.

The Obama Administration has been less-than-helpful, stonewalling information. The Homeland Security committee has responded with the first subpoenas of the administration.

Sens. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) issued the first congressional subpoenas of the Obama administration Monday after accusing the White House of stonewalling their requests for information about the Fort Hood shootings.

In a letter with the subpoenas, the chairman and ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee said the FBI and Defense Department had ignored their requests for five months. The Nov. 5 shootings at the Texas base, the largest Army post in the United States, left 13 people dead.

Lieberman and Collins said they sought witnesses and documents about what the government previously knew about the alleged gunman, Army psychiatrist Nidal M. Hasan, and whether it had adequately investigated his pre-shooting communications with Yemeni cleric and suspected terrorist Anwar al-Aulaqi.

The White House says releasing the information could harm the case against the Hassan. Really? The margin of error in this case is that small? This isn’t exactly an Agatha Christie novel, folks.

There are countless witnesses. Multiple police officers were involved in shoot-outs with Hasan. Forty-three individuals were personally shot by him, most of whom survived and can testify. He was finally shot and detained by a civilian police sergeant. Never mind his extensive, publicly-known history of radicalism, or likely video of him during the shooting.

And we’re concerned that releasing some information to the US Senate could compromise the case? Uh huh. There was a failure to remove Hassan because of political correctness within the Department of Defense. People were afraid to be seen as intolerant.

Now the White House and Pentagon are dragging their feet. Hopefully the Senate Homeland Security committee can get some answers.