Soldier ordered to delete vid of Ft Hood shooting

[satya]

Witness testifies he took, deleted video of the Fort Hood shooting
By Charley Keyes, CNN National Security Producer
STORY HIGHLIGHTS

    * A non-commissioned officer ordered him to erase the video, Pfc. Lance Aviles says
    * Another soldier, speaking from Afghanistan, says the shooting haunts her daily

Fort Hood, Texas (CNN) -- The shooting at Fort Hood was captured on video by a soldier using his cell phone camera as he hid from the shooter, but he was ordered to erase it, the soldier said Friday.

Pfc. Lance Aviles spoke of the video as he testified on the third day of the Article 32 military hearing for Maj. Nidal Hasan, who is accused of killing 13 people and wounding 32 in the 2009 shooting.

Aviles said he was ordered by a non-commissioned officer to delete the video on the same day of the shooting. He did not describe to the court what the video contained.

He said he saw the gunman stop to reload and considered rushing him. But by the time Aviles got up, he said, the shooter "had already loaded another magazine. So instead of running to him, I ran off to the right."

Hasan, partially paralyzed, was wheeled into the courtroom by a blue-uniformed police officer. Occasionally, he used his arms to reposition himself in his chair while listening to the testimony.

Spc. Megan Martin, speaking via video from Kandahar, Afghanistan, said she constantly relives the events of the day.

She said she was not injured, but "it was a nightmare that reoccurs every day."

Despite the trauma, she did not seek to delay her deployment to Afghanistan. "I wanted to carry on the mission as my fellow soldiers would have wanted me to," she said.
 
 
 
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[Christopher Marlowe]

Why would someone give the order to delete evidence?  

Same thing happened after 9/11:

Destruction of Evidence of the Commandeered Flights

Of the four flights commandeered on 9/11/01, Flights 11, 175, 77, and 93, there is virtually no evidence in the public domain that can provide definitive answers to their fate. This is because the evidence has either been suppressed or destroyed by those who controlled the response to and investigation of this vast crime.
Taped Destroyed by FAA

While most of the incidental evidence, such as recordings of communications with pilots of the doomed aircraft, remains in the category of missing, with no one held to account for it, some such evidence is now known to be destroyed. A report issued on May 6, 2004 at the request of Senator John McCain concluded that an audiotape recording of communications with commandeered planes on 9/11/01 was destroyed by FAA managers. 1  

The tape contained a one-hour interview, taken on the day of the attack, with six controllers who tracked two of the planes on 9/11/01. The controllers gave detailed accounts of what events they recalled just hours earlier. An FAA official described in the report as a quality assurance manager crushed the cassette, then cut up the tape and dropped pieces into multiple trash cans. 2  

1. FAA Managers Destroyed 9/11 Tape, the Washington Post, 5/6/04 [cached]
2. F.A.A. Official Scrapped Tape of 9/11 Controllers' Statements, New York Times, 5/6/04 [cached]