This is the first I've heard of a Lt. Gen. McChrystal involved in the Tillman case. He needs to be a big part of the current investigation. Something doesn't square. This article is full of info from his prior testimony. The army overruled the Pentagon's decision to punish him for his involvement, because he's Special Ops (highly secret)? What does Special Ops have to do w/Cpl Tillman? Did some egotistical member of this secret organization shoot Tillman when he stood up and yelled, "I'm Pat Tillman, stop firing!"?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070803/ap_on_re_us/tillman_friendly_fireJust a day after approving a medal claiming former NFL player Pat Tillman had been cut down by "devastating enemy fire" in Afghanistan, a high-ranking general tried to warn President Bush that the story might not be true, according to testimony obtained by The Associated Press.
Despite this apparent contradiction, Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal was spared punishment in the latest review of Tillman's shooting. On Tuesday, the Army overruled a Pentagon recommendation that he be held accountable for his "misleading" actions.
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In the Silver Star citation, McChrystal had praised Tillman for placing himself "in the line of devastating enemy fire."
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McChrystal was then and remains commander of the covert Joint Special Operations Command, the military's clandestine "black ops" corps, which fights in the shadows of battles in Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond.
Among those who work with him, McChrystal is respected and admired for his leadership and integrity. He also has the trust of Bush, who — despite the secrecy of McChrystal's operation — publicly praised him last year when Al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in a U.S. airstrike.
Attempts to reach McChrystal this week by telephone and e-mail were unsuccessful.
Here's a June 2006 Newsweek expose about McChrystal and his secret ops--it doesn't even mention Tillman:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13392189/site/newsweek/print/1/displaymode/1098/Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, West Point '76, is not someone the Army likes to talk about. He isn't even listed in the directory at Fort Bragg, N.C., his home base. That's not because McChrystal has done anything wrong—quite the contrary, he's one of the Army's rising stars—but because he runs the most secretive force in the U.S. military. That is the Joint Special Operations Command, the snake-eating, slit-their-throats "black ops" guys who captured Saddam Hussein and targeted Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi.
JSOC is part of what Vice President Dick Cheney was referring to when he said America would have to "work the dark side" after 9/11.
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...the secrecy surrounding McChrystal's role worries some who note that Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld have given clandestine operations the lead in the war on terror—with little public accountability, including in the interrogation room.