Lieberman pushing for a Ft Hood hearing

(CNN) - President Obama wants Congress to wait on any hearings into the Fort Hood shootings until federal authorities finish their investigations.

But, Senator Joe Lieberman said his Homeland Security Committee is opening an investigation into the matter anyway.

"I feel that we've turned a corner in the last week in our attempt to gain access for staff interviews by our staff with personnel at the Department of Defense, Department of Justice, etc., said Sen. Lieberman. "We're going to hold another closed hearing of this kind, hopefully, quite soon, perhaps by the end of the week, with somebody representing the Joint Terrorism Task Forces, that's the group that first apparently happened on Major Hasan's name in an email to a subject of a terrorist investigation, who's been identified as this radical imam who's now living in Yemen. So, I hope that we have turned a corner with the administration that will enable us to carry out our responsibilities and make recommendations that are constructive, while not interfering with the criminal investigation."

Army psychiatrist, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, was charged with the shooting spree that left 13 people dead just recently.