Pat Tillman

That is a possibility MSNBC is reporting tonight:

The investigation must be reopened now. Considering there were calls from the military to the White House regarding the death, then the investigation must be fully opened to the White House. Executive privilege can not be used to cover up a possible murder either. If this is found to be true then anyone involved deserves the same fate Saddam had - and I don't care if it's George Bush.

This White House isn't even human:

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) revealed on Friday afternoon that the White House and Pentagon were holding up a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee investigation into the friendly fire death of former professional football player and Army Corporal Patrick Tillman.

"[T]he Committee wrote to White House Counsel Fred Fielding seeking 'all documents received or generated by any official in the Executive Office of the President' relating to Corporal Tillman's death," noted a press release from the Committee.

But the White House has apparently again invoked its executive privilege to hold up the documents sought by Waxman and Ranking Minority member Tom Davis (R-VA).

"The White House Counsel's office responded that it would not provide the Committee with documents that 'implicate Executive Branch confidentiality interests' and produced only two communications with the officials in the Defense Department, one of which was a package of news clippings," the Committe noted. "The response of the Defense Department to the Committee's inquiry was also deficient."

This is sick. They not only lied about his death, but are now trying to hide the reasons for the lie. This further proves that Bush has no respect for our troops, their lives or their families.

House panel plans hearings on misinformation surrounding Tillman, Lynch cases

A U.S. House committee announced Tuesday it would hold hearings on misleading military statements that followed the friendly fire death of Pat Tillman in Afghanistan and the rescue of Pfc. Jessica Lynch in Iraq.

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said an April 24 hearing would be part of its investigation into whether there was a strategy to mislead the public.

The plan comes two weeks after the Pentagon released the findings of its own investigations into Tillman's death, and three years after he was killed.

The committee has been quietly investigating the case since then and decided to add Lynch to the scope of its probe. It will "examine why inaccurate accounts of these two incidents were disseminated, the sources and motivations for the accounts, and whether the appropriate Administration officials have been held accountable," the panel said on its Web site.

The fact that this "misinformation" somehow always props up Bush's war is enough reason to investigate. We never hear that "this soldier died from friendly fire" and then months later they say "we made a mistake - it was hostile fire". These inaccurate statements appear to constantly align themselves with the administrations political policy and that is against military rules. If the White House is involved in fabricating these lies then that gives us a perfect reason to impeach and charge the commander in chief.

After yesterday's press briefing about Pat Tillman's death, there were still many questions that lurked. It smelled of a cover-up, and apparently the Tillman family feels the same way:

The family of Cpl. Pat Tillman said Monday the Army investigation into the former NFL player's death by friendly fire in Afghanistan suggests a "conspiracy" and vowed to pursue a congressional investigation into how the death was handled.

Military officials had said earlier that nine officers, including four generals, will face "corrective action" for making critical mistakes in the aftermath of Tillman's death.

The NFL player was killed in Afghanistan in 2004 after giving up a professional football career to fight as an Army Ranger.

In their statement, the Tillman family said they were not satisfied with the Army report.

"In our opinion, this attempt to impose closure by slapping the wrists of a few officers and enlisted men is just another bureaucratic entrenchment," the family statement said. "Once again, we are being used as props in a Pentagon public relations exercise."

The military cited all these false reports made, and yet that wasn't wrong? The most interesting part is how the series of events they described sounds like some group effort to cover it up, yet there is nothing wrong with that and they didn't even look into the intent of this action. What kind of investigation doesn't look into intent?

This brings another issue to light - accountability in our military. We have seen so many problems with out military and the upper brass always blames it on "rogue" elements. Abu Gharib, Haditha, the list goes on. So what kind of military do we have when the commanders and troops don't follow the rules? What kind of leader is our commander in chief when his army acts like this?

Hopefully Congress will open an investigation into this (and I believe they will). The Tillman family is owed the truth. Our military isn't treating our soldiers right when they are injured, or when they are killed in action. Someone must be accountable for that.