Army Shreds Documents Following Friendly Fire Coverup (VIDEO)

Last month, Salon ran an article that featured video of an American tank appearing to fire on American troops, despite the army's denials regarding the incident. That NSFW video can be found below. Now it seems that the coverup went even further. Via Salon:

Salon has learned that documents relating to the two men were shredded hours after the story was published. Three soldiers at Fort Carson, Colo. -- including two who were present in Ramadi during the friendly fire incident, one of them just feet from where Nelson and Suarez died -- were ordered to shred two boxes full of documents about Nelson and Suarez. One of the soldiers preserved some of the documents as proof that the shredding occurred and provided them to Salon. All three soldiers, with the assistance of a U.S. senator's office, have since been relocated for their safety.

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Comments

[ScoutandBuckGoodDogs]

Holy canoli. I feel so ignorant sitting here safe in my own home. I keep having to remind myself that it's not a movie, it's real and their parents saw this happening to them. Devastating.

[Artos]

ScoutandBuckGoodDogs,

More than likely, and unless they partake of this Site, they may never see it or be told the truth. Look how long it took for the truth to come out about that football Player who was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan. Tillman wasn't it or something like that. The Military isn't beyond covering up it's own behind, especially the Officer Corp. They need to keep up the fiction that they are infallible and beyond reproach. Never let the peons see you as capable of making mistakes or if they do make sure they shut up about it, or else.

[fredfep]

So let's have our pal Gates do something about it.

yeah, right...

[tandrmcdonald]

This is criminal. Those who ordered the shredding need to be put on trial. It's just one more example of the Bush/Cheney mind-set. Destroy the evidence. Deny everything.

[politisophical]

this is tragic..

[RevSpaminator]

I love how the government thinks that shredding their own internal documents will somehow make the video go away.

[sylar]

Jesus, what a clusterf**k