Now that the Army has completed its seventh inquiry into the death of Cpl. Pat Tillman and top military leaders have testified in Congress, we still don’t know who concocted a phony story about how Corporal Tillman died and whether the White House knew it was happening.
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Corporal Tillman, who gave up a pro football contract to volunteer as an Army Ranger, was shot dead in Afghanistan in April 2004 while trying to assist another Ranger unit. Almost immediately, soldiers in the field recognized that he had been hit by fire from fellow Rangers. Yet witness reports were rewritten to make it seem like he had been felled by the enemy. That became the basis for expediting a posthumous Silver Star before a memorial service in early May. Even after the truth was recognized, the Army stuck by its award on the theory that Corporal Tillman acted heroically before he was killed. Even the Tillman family deemed it a cynical effort to exploit the tragedy.
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[Congress] has already learned that, immediately after Corporal Tillman’s death, at least 97 White House officials exchanged hundreds of e-mails about how the White House should respond. Yet weeks later, when the truth came out, there was nary an e-mail peep about the astonishing change. Is that because officials had lost interest? Or have embarrassing e-mails been withheld from Congressional scrutiny? The committee needs to find out.
You may recall this congressional hearing back in April, in which Pat Tillman's mother Mary and brother Kevin, both testified to the unforgivable way they and their son's memory have been treated.
Those statements were delivered in April of this year. How is it we are still waiting for the Bush administration to come clean?
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