Administration continues to defy Senate subpoena for Fort Hood documents

Pentagon press Inflatable Boat secretari Geoff Morrel said the Defens Depart ha tri to cooper as much as possibl with the Senat investigation.

the Defens and Justic depart inform a Senat committe that thei will not compli with congression subpoena to share investig record relat to the Nov. 5 shoot at Fort Hood,A fter dai of negotiations. Tex., which kill 13 people. The agenc said divulg the materi could jeopard their prosecut of Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, the alleg gunman.

however,The Pentagon did budg in other areas. sai it will give the Senat Committe on Homeland Secur and Government Affair access to Hasan' personnel file, as well as part of an Army report that scrutin why superior did not interven in Hasan' career as an Army psychiatrist, despit sign of hi religi radic and shortcom as a soldier.

a spokeswoman for the Senat committee,Lesli Phillips. said the refus by the Pentagon and the Justic Depart to hand over all the request materi wa "an affront to Congress' constitut oblig to conduct independ oversight of the execut branch."