From the AP via Jihad Watch:
A soldier who recorded the terror of last year’s deadly shooting rampage in Fort Hood using his cell phone was ordered by an officer to delete both videos, a military court heard Friday.
Under cross examination, Pfc. Lance Aviles told an Article 32 hearing that his noncommissioned officer ordered him to destroy the two videos on Nov. 5, the same day that a gunman unleashed a volley of bullets inside a processing center at the Texas Army post…
The destruction of evidence of a crime is itself a crime – obstruction of justice. We have no reason to doubt this soldier’s statement, and a thorough investigation needs to be launched to find the officer in question and discover just why an order to break the law was given (the soldier, himself, should have refused to obey such an illegal order – but a Pfc. is not one to necessarily know where the law is at a time when a direct order is given by an officer). This story, if it is proved true, demonstrates that our military has been completely infected by political correctness as regards Islam.
We need to get a handle on this. As we saw at Ft Hood, the lives of our soldiers depends on it. Because of political correctness, the Islamist terrorist Hasan was permitted to be in the military, setting in train the events which culminated in mass murder. A non-politically correct military would have cashiered Hasan long before he had his chance to murder. Our military is to defend us, not to bow to liberal notions of what is most sensitive.
As we cannot expect Obama’s politicized Justice department to do anything, we’ll have to rely on Congressional oversight to get to the bottom of this – and come January, we might even have a Congress willing to do such a job.
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