New Details-Tillman's Death-No Evidence Of Enemy Fire-Attorneys Congratulate Each Other For Lying

[kpete]

AP: New details on Tillman's death By MARTHA MENDOZA, AP National Writer
5 minutes ago

SAN FRANCISCO - Army medical examiners were suspicious about the close proximity of the three bullet holes in Pat Tillman's forehead and tried without success to get authorities to investigate whether the former NFL player's death amounted to a crime, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.

Among other information contained in the documents:

• In his last words moments before he was killed, Tillman snapped at a panicky comrade under fire to shut up and stop "sniveling."

• Army attorneys sent each other congratulatory e-mails for keeping criminal investigators at bay as the Army conducted an internal friendly-fire investigation that resulted in administrative, or non-criminal, punishments.

• The three-star general who kept the truth about Tillman's death from his family and the public told investigators some 70 times that he had a bad memory and couldn't recall details of his actions.

• No evidence at all of enemy fire was found at the scene — no one was hit by enemy fire, nor was any government equipment struck.


more at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070726/ap_on_re_us/tillman_friendly_fire

[Richard Steele]

1. Tillman was murdered, and his superiors know it. recommended

[blondeatlast]

8. God. I just saw this on KO. There is no other way to paint this.

He was murdered. Oh. My. God.

[marmar]

2. Rock bottom......

:argh:

[johnfunk]

3. Throw the bastard(s) that killed Tillman to Michael Vick's dogs...

Sounds just to me

[Wilber_Stool]

4. So,

fearless leader is now covering up a murder. This is pretty hard to believe. Well, maybe not.

[Rex]

5. Unadulterated evil.

Getting out of the Army was the best decision I ever made.

[zabet]

6. #5 rec!

They murdered a man portrayed as an American Hero and Patriot
to create a martyr for their war of lies.

[radfringe]

22. I wouldn't go that far

and say "they murdered him" so they could turn him into a photo-op prop

it's more like taking advantage of a star's death to use as a photo-op prop

Frankly, I don't follow football at all, so when Tillman's death was announced - it was the first time I heard the name.

the whole "gave up a football career and was killed by the enemy" hero stuff didn't set well with me. to me it was exploitation for political purposes

It reminds me of a M*A*S*H espisode where a general dies in bed, and his aide tosses his body into a jeep, calls for a artillary barrage, drives to the battle field so the general "looks" like he died in battle..

wouldn't doubt it if this is where they got the idea

[Hydra]

7. Support the troops, they say

While they are murdered inside the lines, get sent out without adequate protective gear, get denied PSTD status and have their retirement and general pay stripped, and get sent out on longer tours with less downtime and more happy returns.

Why do we allow the GOP to control the message where the troops are involved??? :argh:

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. Those lawyers should be disbarred.

Lying is one of those ethic breaches which is suppose to end a lawyer's career. Instead, it just makes them more desireable by the private sector.

[malaise]

10. And DUers want me to have sympathy for

enablers like Tony Snow. Fuck all of Bushco. If this were my son, somebody would be paying big time.

[blondeatlast]

11. I'm in tears. Dear God, what has happened to my country? nt

[AntiFascist]

12. K&R, yet another scandal to show what kind of criminals...

we are dealing with in this administration. Didn't a general recently say it was like being in the mafia?

[Disturbed]

13. The DOD has claimed Exec Priv. concerning the Tillman Docs.

Do you wonder why that is so?

[AntiFascist]

14. It's starting to get ridiculous, enough is enough!....

Bush may as well say that since Tillman was a liberal and sided with Democrats, he really was also conspiring with the enemy of the US and we had to have him killed as matter of national security. Because the public would not accept this, we decided to have his death framed in a heroic manner. Perfectly understandable excuse for this administration, isn't it? At least for the people who follow Ann Coulter.

[Maraya1969]

16. According to what we learned today that executive privilege is moot if this is

turned into a criminal investigation.

[Suich]

15. I'm confused...

Was he murdered because a fellow soldier was pissed off at him? or

Was he murdered so * could have a martyr to help sell the war and/or boost enlistments?

Or is that part unclear?

[tblue37]

18. *If* he was murdered, it would probably have been

because someone higher up was afraid his stance that the Iraq war is illegal and his apparent atheism and strong liberal leanings would have been too awkward to tolerate (and because there were no small planes nearby for him to get into).

[eridani]

21. Stan Goff doesn't think it was a planned hit

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/080806_tillman_files7.shtml

Of course it could still be murder. One thing we know for sure is that whatever happened is highly unflattering to the Powers that Be.

[Bjorn Against]

17. Impeach now.

Covering up the murder of a person who many consider to be a national hero is going to create some serious waves if this gets a lot of attention. If Bush assisted in the cover up of a murder as it appears he did then I don't know how anyone could possibly justify letting him stay in office. This is something I think all but the most insane would consider an impeachable offense.

[EFerrari]

19. This is the worst thing I've ever known.

I feel sick.

[Usrename]

20. Remember His Name

Remember His Name
By Gary Smith
Sports Illustrated

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The Black Sheep followed the invasion into Baghdad, spent their days pulling perimeter security around the airport and going house to house in search of the Iraqi leaders pictured on the infamous 52 playing cards, and their nights flinching from the pigeon crap raining through the shrapnel-shredded hangar where they slept. Pat was so inclusive, so interested even in the screwiest private, that any pettiness in the platoon began evaporating; the Black Sheep became tight. Trouble was, Russ so treasured his time with Pat that he couldn't bear to share it with some of the knuckleheads gathered around him. He'd wait until they'd fallen asleep or flaked away to their video games and skin magazines, then beeline toward Pat and Kevin. One would glance at the other two and say, Let's have a coffee and -- bingo -- the Baghdad Book Club was in session, three men talking literature and ideas to the far side of midnight, Pat's eyes glittering just as they did during all-night conversations around a fire in the front yard of his childhood home whenever he returned there.

That's how they found themselves atop a bunker south of Baghdad late one night in March 2003, on the eve of the rescue of Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch, knowing a bloodbath might await them the following night, when they would encircle the hospital in Nasiriyah where she lay wounded. They sat there, perched above their sleeping mates, watching the Marines bombard a town five miles away, drinking in the beauty of a desert sky strobe-lit by the explosion of 155-mm shells.

Russ didn't know yet that Pat had written to his mom, delighting in the serendipity of having found a little brother in his platoon named Baer. "Bear" was what Pat and Kevin had grown up calling their youngest brother, Richard. But Russ felt so much brotherly trust and caring that night in Iraq that he offered to read to Pat and Kevin from his own notebooks, his Latrine Letters. They loved Baer's seething snapshots of life as a Ranger in a savage place.

more>

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/magazine/09/05/tillman0911/

I always thought it an odd coincidence that their paths crossed ...