Navy Investigation Over Lewd Videos Expands To Offender's Superiors

[Tx4obama]

In response to the revelation that U.S. Navy Captain Owen Honors produced a series of lewd videos while serving as the executive officer on board the U.S.S. Enterprise, the Navy has cashiered him. And swiftly at that: 48 hours after the videos went viral on the internet, Honors was relieved of duty, despite the fact that the Enterprise's departure for Afghanistan was imminent.

But that shouldn't be the end of the story. As the executive officer, Honors was merely second-in-command at the time the videos were produced. According to the Washington Post's Greg Jaffe, the scrutiny has extended to the men who served as Honors's superiors at the time of the incident:

U.S. Fleet Forces Commander, Admiral John C. Harvey will lead a broader investigation into whether other senior Navy officials knew about the four-year-old videos, which aired on the ship's closed-circuit television, and why they failed to take disciplinary action against Honors. The probe is likely to focus on whether Rear Adm. Lawrence Rice, who was captain of the ship in 2007, and his immediate commander, now-retired Rear Adm. Raymond A. Spicer, had seen the videos or received complaints about them.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/05/navy-investigation-over-l_n_804890.html

[DrDan]

1. of course they knew about them - how could they not???? It was broadcast throughout the ship.

[seabeyond]

2. not only did they know, there were men that complained and it was ignored. nt

[ProgressiveProfessor]

3. I too am interested about how the command handled it

If they were played only once and he was then told to knock it off, its one thing. If they were played the entire cruise, that is another.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. The Captain gave an order to his XO to knock it off

and did not escalate when the XO ignored a legal, lawful order.

As I said yesterday... it will not stop there.

His former CO will be encouraged to ahem retire, for the good of the service... and the two admirals who rode with the battle group, one is retired so unless they bring him in... and not a fat chance... but the other most likely will see a letter of reprimand, which effectively means glass ceiling.

[Ozymanithrax]

5. Damn Skippy, the XO didn't do that without the Captai knowing it...

Not to mention CAG and any other high officer.