The Dead-End Inquiry on Tillman

From some blog at the New York Times courtesy of AlterNet:

A House committee today announced that it had hit a dead end after months of investigating the mishandling of the death of Cpl. Pat Tillman, the N.F.L. player-turned soldier.

According to the draft report, the inquiry was “frustrated by a near universal lack of recall” from senior officials. “Not a single one could recall when he learned about the fratricide or what he did in response,” the report said just before noting Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld’s testimony: “I don’t recall when I was told and I don’t recall who told me.”

Indeed, Mr. Rumsfeld and other military officials used some variation of “I don’t recall” at least 82 times in three hours, according to one count from the committee’s hearing on the subject last year.

More here.

This is infuriating, if only because the whole thing reeks of covering up one of those Pentagon faux hero propaganda efforts, like the one they pulled with Jessica Lynch during the Iraq invasion. But it becomes downright sinister and frightening when you consider that there is forensic evidence strongly suggesting that Tillman was murdered, deliberately, possibly because of the far-left anti-war views he had developed while serving--many have speculated that the former football star was planning on becoming heavily involved in the anti-war movement once he returned to the United States.

But as long as these generals and Defense Department officials are allowed to not "recall" anything pertinent to the case, we won't know what happened.

And that's some serious bullshit.

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