Memory Scrub About Why Ft. Hood Happened Is Almost Complete ... If It Weren't for Archives

[Peter Lemkin]

From Legitgov.org

Fort Hood soldier ordered to erase video of shootings --In US civilian courts, destruction of evidence can be a crime. 15 Oct 2010 A US soldier who captured a deadly 2009 rampage at Fort Hood with his cell phone camera testified Friday that he was ordered to erase the video by his commanders. The video could have provided key evidence at the trial of Major Nidal Hasan, a US Army psychiatrist who faces 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder. Lead defense attorney John Galligan asked witness Private Lance Aviles if he had taken a video of the shooting with his cell phone and if he deleted the footage at the instruction of his superiors. "Yes, sir," Aviles replied.

It's pretty simple.

Those "superiors" should be hauled before the court, locked up for contempt, and the key should be thrown away.

It should be that simple, but don't hold your breath. In fact, in the USA the Ft. Hood shooting is no longer mentioned in the MSM at all. Old news...no news....there are lots of new shootings in that pattern now to talk about.....gotta keep current....forget getting to the truth....the what? As far as I can find, those 'superiors' were never identified....how convenient.

Updated 1:15 PM ET


(AP) FORT HOOD, Texas - A military judge on Tuesday refused to again delay the trial of an Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly Fort Hood shooting rampage, setting up the highly anticipated court-martial scheduled to begin next week.


Maj. Nidal Hasan is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the November 2009 attack at the Texas Army post. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday. Hasan faces the death penalty or life in prison without parole if convicted.


The judge, Col. Gregory Gross, previously delayed the trial from March to June and then to August. In the latest request, defense attorneys argued they had not been able to look through 26 boxes of documents, including thousands of pages of his medical records and jail logs. Lead defense attorney Lt. Col. Kris Poppe also said the defense team needed to talk to 20 new witnesses identified after receiving thousands of pages of documents in recent months.


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Prosecutors had opposed the delay, saying the government's case would not include information about Hasan's medical records or the logs about his daily activities in the nearby Bell County Jail, which houses defendants for Fort Hood. Prosecutors had not yet arranged for witnesses to be at Fort Hood, about 150 miles southwest of Dallas, because jury selection is expected to take up to three weeks.


At the start of Tuesday's hearing, Gross once again held Hasan in contempt of court and fined him $1,000 for refusing to shave his beard. Hasan then was taken to a nearby room to watch the rest of the hearing on a closed-circuit television, as he's done since he first showed up in court with a beard in June.


Beards are an Army violation. Hasan's attorneys have said he won't shave because it's an expression of his Muslim faith. But Gross said Hasan would be forcibly shaved at some point before the trial if he doesn't shave the beard himself. He said he wants Hasan in the courtroom during the court-martial to prevent a possible appeal on the issue if he is convicted. [gotta keep things in perspective....beards are much more important than who ordered the video of the shooting deleted, and many things along those lines....]