Text Fwd:[Cheonan Navy Ship] Wide-ranging incompetence and cover-ups took place night of Cheonan sinking, audit reveals

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Hankyoreh
June 11, 2010
Wide-ranging incompetence and cover-ups took place night of Cheonan sinking, audit reveals : A number of observers believe that the announcement of audit results only presented an abbreviated version of the findings

It has come to light that Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Lee Sang-eui was heavily intoxicated on the night of March 26 when the sinking of the Cheonan took place. This represented an effective surrender of his command responsibilities. It was also revealed that military authorities willfully revised the time of the incident in order to avoid criticisms about an improper early response and edited only a portion of its thermal optical device (TOD) videos for disclosure to the media in order to justify the erroneous announcement of the time.

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It was also found that the Defense Ministry and Joint Chiefs of Staff were aware that TOD video footage was recorded from 9:25:38 p.m. on the day of the sinking, but disclosed only an edited version with footage from after 9:35:08 p.m. “The military changed the time of the incident from 9:45 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. that night, but it concealed the extra footage because it would be difficult to stick with the previously announced time if it got out into the media,” said BAI.
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