Yeah Amos. The story ain't going away...

The playbook works a little like this.  Bad news comes out.  Keep your head down.  Let the news cycle move on to new controversies.  Come out of hiding and everything is forgotten.

The playbook isn't working on this one.  Eventually the big news organizations are going to start sniffing around.  This is via the Business Insider.

Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. James Amos allegedly sought to have investigation documents classified that could have possibly incriminated him under article 37 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice for unlawfully influencing an investigation.
Now the Commandant is under investigation, Chuck Hagel’s top military advisor is caught in the middle of it, and one of the Marines court-martialed in the Taliban urination scandal says it’s why he should be exonerated.
In early 2012, after a video surfaced appearing to depict three U.S. Marines urinating on Taliban corpses, Amos ordered a full investigation.
He appointed a tremendously well respected Marine general, Lt. Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, to head the inquiry. At the time, Waldhauser was the commanding general of both Marine Corps Forces Central Command and I Marine Expeditionary Force. He now serves as the senior military advisor to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
“Rest assured that the institution of the Marine Corps will not rest until the allegations and the events surrounding them have been resolved,” Amos said in a statement shortly after the incident came to light.

Nothing new.  But the story has legs.  How long can he hang on when its obvious that he is morally bankrupt and incapable of holding the position he has?

The craziest part of this?  He is probably the biggest supporter of the F-35 in the Pentagon.  If he goes then so goes one of that program's biggest backers.   Will the next guy choose aircraft over armor?  Will he allow the issue with the AAV to fester the way Amos has?  Will the next Commandant choose an airplane over Infantry Battalions?

I'm not sure but I'm ready to find out.

In light of Amos' pending retirement I'd like to award him the BF with gold cluster....