They're going to keep trying till they get it down Pat

posted by The Sailor @ 10:30 PM Permalink

UPDATE: Think Progress has a guest blogger that says it better that I did or can.


I apoligize for the headline, sometimes snark is the only way I can deal with the horrors this misAdminsitration has orchestrated:

AP: New Details on Tillman's Death

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.

``The medical evidence did not match up with the, with the scenario as described,'' a doctor who examined Tillman's body after he was killed on the battlefield in Afghanistan in 2004 told investigators.

The doctors - whose names were blacked out - said that the bullet holes were so close together that it appeared the Army Ranger was cut down by an M-16 fired from a mere 10 yards or so away.

Ultimately, the Pentagon did conduct a criminal investigation, and asked Tillman's
comrades whether he was disliked by his men and whether they had any reason to believe he was deliberately killed.
[...]
The medical examiners' suspicions were outlined in 2,300 pages of testimony released to the AP this week by the Defense Department in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.

Among other information contained in the documents:
[...]
- 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.

Cross posted at SteveAudio

Labels: corruption, Iraq war, Tillman