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Monday, July 14, 2008

Tillman Investigation Hampered by ‘Near Universal Lack of Recall’

The committee says that in their quest to find out when officials first knew about the possibility that Tillman’s death was not due to enemy fire, they were “frustrated by a near universal lack of recall,” according to the report.

The committee interviewed several senior White House officials including former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, communications director Dan Bartlett, former Press Secretary Scott McClellan, and chief speech writer Michael Gerson.

"Not a single one could recall when he learned about the fratricide or what he did in response," says the report.


http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5371986&page=1

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Avatar for Lestat

What a bunch of liars.

Lestat on July 14, 2008 at 06:04 pm

The troll is at it again.


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goon on July 14, 2008 at 08:35 pm

uh oh. someone is exposing propaganda that goon doesn’t want exposed. time to whine about trolls. meanwhile, let’s pile on every iota of lefty propaganda we can get our mits on.

goon, how do you feel about people willfully lying to us about the situation in which Tillman died? Lying to his family? What if they were lying to your family about you?


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Sparkie Arbuckle on July 15, 2008 at 07:32 am

Gosh, do you mean that not every high up official in the Pentagon knows all of the details of the death of every corporal that’s died in Afghanistan or Iraq?

I am SO shocked.  The next thing you know, you’ll be telling me that the Secretary of Defense doesn’t know whether Beetle Bailey, Private Fourth Class, has enough ammunition in his magazines to keep his rifle going in a firefight.

Let’s be serious here; Pat Tillman was a high profile soldier, but a soldier nonetheless, and moreover killed in the confusion that accompanies battle, especially that of friendly fire.  To claim that senior officers ought to remember every detail of every soldier’s injury or death is to desire to prevent them from doing their jobs.

Which, in turn, would get MORE soldiers killed.  RCB, this one ranks up with Pat Scroeder’s question about why the Army couldn’t come up with a less lethal grenade so women could be in combat.  In other words, Dumber.Than.S**t.

Bike Bubba on July 15, 2008 at 09:58 am
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Let’s be serious here; Pat Tillman was a high profile soldier, but a soldier nonetheless, and moreover killed in the confusion that accompanies battle, especially that of friendly fire.  To claim that senior officers ought to remember every detail of every soldier’s injury or death is to desire to prevent them from doing their jobs.

He was the Army’s posterboy.  He had been mentioned in the President’s speeches.  They noticed his death enough to try to make it into a public relations victory by giving him medals and creating a fictional story around it.  They took notice of his death and are just lying to cover their asses, at the expense of his family.

Hawk on July 15, 2008 at 12:40 pm

Correct me if I am wrong, I am fairly certain that Pat did not die in a copier accident in the White House. So blaming them is a bit disingenuous.

As for his death, one of my first comments was to state my belief that he had been smoked by his own close support element. From the first description of the action I read, at BBC, I drew that conclusion. And no one every printed a description of the action that was different. Lots of nobodies drew conclusions that were different, WH and FOX being two of them.


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2Hotel9 on July 15, 2008 at 03:42 pm
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