Posted on 10/17/2010 7:23:44 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
The Article 32 proceeding (the military equivalent of a grand jury investigation in anticipation of an indictment) is underway for Maj. Nidal Hasan. You’ll recall him as the jihadist the military won’t call a jihadist, having assiduously averted its eyes from the fact that he was a jihadist before his terrorist murder of 13 American soldiers and wounding of numerous others — acts the military, taking its cue from the commander-in-chief, will not refer to as terrorism.
From the Associated Press report on yesterday’s hearing [thanks to Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch] comes this mind-blowing detail, buried at the bottom of the story:
Earlier Friday under cross examination, Pfc. Lance Aviles said he used his cell phone to record the rampage inside the processing center but was ordered by an officer to delete both videos later the same day. Aviles was not asked if he knew why the officer ordered the videos destroyed. It’s unclear exactly what the footage showed, although it could have been used as evidence in the case….Based on the Defense Department’s shameful conduct in this case, we have no choice but to believe (unless proven otherwise) that the military did not want to preserve a recording of a jihadist terrorist screaming Allahu Akbar! as he carried out a massacre unmistakably inspired by Islamist ideology.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Hasan is dead meat walking. The big question is what Army officers and civilian “leaders” will go down with him.
TC
What do you think will happen to the officer that ordered Pfc. Lance Aviles to erase his cell phone video of the shooting?
He'll be promoted...
Even if he erased it wouldn’t it still be on the Sim card and retrievable?
I don’t know; there’s a lot of “ifs” involved:
>IF the PFC is telling the truth accurately, and
>IF the officer is identified, and
>IF the chain of command decides a UCMJ violation occurred, then the officer should be charged and tried—maybe offered NJP in lieu of court martial.
I’d guess the odds of all that happening are low.
TC
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