Robert Scheer: The Pat Tillman Cover-Up Continues

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C'MON! The Pentagon's inspector general concludes that nine top officers were involved in the cover-up of NFL football star Cpl. Pat Tillman's "friendly fire" death, yet insists that this apparent conspiracy to conceal the truth does not rise to the level of criminality? Rather, it was "missteps" that led four generals and five officers of lower rank to conceal from his family and the American public the truth known instantly in the field: Tillman died not, as the Pentagon first claimed, in a firefight with the enemy in Afghanistan, but rather at the hands of his fellow Rangers.

That family includes Tillman's brother Kevin, who fought alongside Pat in Iraq and Afghanistan after ending his own sports career as a professional baseball player and enlisting with Pat in response to the 9/11 attacks. Yet this family, which sent two of its sons to fight in President Bush's wars, was rewarded for its sacrifice with officially inspired fabrications enshrined in a Silver Star commendation.

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Robert Scheer: The Pat Tillman Cover-Up Continues

For five weeks of mourning, from Tillman's death on

April 22, 2004, through his nationally televised memorial on May 3, the U.S. government used the tale of Tillman's heroism to deflect the na...

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