Mary Tillman on ‘Today’: ‘Pat’s Death Was a Lie to the Country’

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from Truthdig:



Mary Tillman on ‘Today’: ‘Pat’s Death Was a Lie to the Country’

Posted on May 6, 2008


Mary Tillman made a sharp and moving appearance Tuesday morning on the “Today” show to talk about her new book, “Boots on the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman,” about the friendly-fire death of her son, Pat, and the U.S. military’s subsequent cover-up in 2004. In an interview by Meredith Viera, Tillman called Pat’s killing “an act of gross negligence,” taking aim at the Pentagon’s top brass when she said “someone started this deception, and it didn’t start at the three-star level.”

Watch the clip: http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20080506_mary_tillman_on_today_pats_death_was_a_lie_to_the_country/

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1. All they cared about what protecting Bush before the election - PERIOD. Especially his media whores.

Tillman would have messed up their agenda.

[Richard Steele]

2. K&R

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Proud to be the 5th Rec

[pacalo]

4. Beat me to it.

[hisownpetard]

5. Rec #7.

[MsLeopard]

6. Huge K&R!!!

For another brave woman speaking truth to power! And thank you, Meredith, for having her on and asking the right questions. You go girls!!! :toast:

[SpiralHawk]

7. Thank you for telling the truth, Mary Tillman

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[Kurovski]

8. K&R. (nt)

[ForeignSpectator]

9. K&R

[opihimoimoi]

10. K&R....BushCo is Despicable....

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

11. Why does she hate America?

Seriously, who will be the first of the Reich-Wing talkers to take a cheap shot at her? I bet either Neil Snortz or Glenn BecKKK.

[suegeo]

12. Pat’s Death Was a Lie (among thousands of others) to the Country

Tillman's story, as told by the crime family running America, was a particularly disgusting lie obviously.

[blm]

13. Tillman's death was another in a long line of deaths that protected BushInc's power, too.

I don't believe the 'official' story, at all.

[cascadiance]

14. I still think that the "Executive privilege" claim is covering up more than what it appears to...

It might appear to be covering up administration level officials in the coverup, which it could still very well be doing.

But I think just as importantly, the executive privilege claim was to stop the investigation in its tracks so that more members of the military that are "loyal lieutenants" to the White House weren't forced out of the military for these actions which they were likely heavily involved with in a very inappropriate way.

If the White House lost their "lieutenants", they'd lose those key levers they may feel they need in the coming months to follow some directive it might give to attack Iran, or even worse yet, to in effect take over our country with martial law, in the case of some precipitating event that Bushco wants to use to trigger declaring martial law.

Having those people out would have the military say "Hell NO, we won't go!" and stop them in their tracks with perhaps an impeachable (and certainly post election prosecutable) set of offenses.

[AntiFascist]

15. Her 60 Minutes interview was also good...

what didn't come out was the fact that Pat was beginning to question our purpose for being in Afghanistan before he was killed, and also the fact that they burned his diary.