Tillman's Brother Blasts Military

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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8ON2R500&show_article=1&catnum=0

Tillman's Brother Blasts Military
Apr 24 12:16 PM US/Eastern
By SCOTT LINDLAW and ERICA WERNER
Associated Press Writers


WASHINGTON (AP) - Pat Tillman's brother accused the military Tuesday of "intentional falsehoods" and "deliberate and careful misrepresentations" in portraying the football star's death in Afghanistan as the result of heroic engagement with the enemy instead of friendly fire.

"We believe this narrative was intended to deceive the family but more importantly the American public," Kevin Tillman told a House Government Reform and Oversight Committee hearing. "Pat's death was clearly the result of fratricide," he said.

"Revealing that Pat's death was a fratricide would have been yet another political disaster in a month of political disasters ... so the truth needed to be suppressed," said Tillman, who was in a convoy behind his brother when the incident happened three years ago but didn't see it.

The committee's chairman, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., accused the government of inventing "sensational details and stories" about Pat Tillman's death and the 2003 rescue of Jessica Lynch, perhaps the most famous victims of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

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1. I feel so badly for Tillman's family. Every time that they

think of their son and brother they are going to have to deal with this. All his mother wants to know is who gave the orders and getting to the bottom of that will probably take years.

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2. It's going to be like pulling teeth to get this admin and those culpable

to fess up, and there will probably be no punishment. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think so.
Just think of all those who have been lied to that aren't so high-profile. They'll be stonewalled
forever. :(