OMG!!! WH Involved in Tillman Death CoverUP

[Brassmask]

What did I tell you?  What did I tell you?  They orchestrated the cover-up because it would be bad for their little marketing campaign.
 

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White House, Pentagon cite executive privilege to hold up documents on friendly fire victim Tillman
07/13/2007 @ 1:21 pm
Filed by Michael Roston


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."

In their letter to Fielding, Waxman and Davis doubted that the two documents were the limits of White House-Pentagon communication over Tillman's death.

"It is difficult to believe that these are the only communications that White House officials had with the Department of Defense between April 22,2004, the day Corporal Tillman died, and May 29, 2004, the day the Bush Administration publicly announced that Corporal Tillman's death was a result of fratricide," they wrote.

They also explained what they believed was at stake in this probe.

"These questions have implications for the credibility of the information coming from the battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan and raise significant policy issues about how to prevent the future dissemination of untrue information," Waxman and Davis wrote to Fielding. "They also have a profound personal impact on the Tillman family. It is for these reasons that the Committee requested documents from the White House."

The Committee said that it expected a response to the Friday letter by July 25. Waxman also scheduled an additional hearing on the announcement of Tillman's death for Aug. 1.

Full information can be found at the Committee's website.

[Lanya]

What is going on? 
Sorry. I shouldn't ask, I'm just a citizen.  Obviously citizens don't count anymore, not to this crowd in power now.

[BT]

They orchestrated the cover-up because it would be bad for their little marketing campaign.

Where do you get that from the story?

Says they are invoking executive privilege. Standard practice almost as long as i have been alive.

See the way it works is some grandsatnding congressional comittee goes on a fishing expedition. The WH resists.

Then eventually they comply and unleash an avalanche of paperwork.

and all the lawyers dance
ashes to ashes
dust to dust
we alll fall down

[Brassmask]

And inevitably anyone exerting executive privilege is hiding unethical to illegal.

[BT]

And inevitably anyone exerting executive privilege is hiding unethical to illegal.

Not necessarily. You might get a headline or two out of what is released, not too often is there a real actionable smoking guns.

It's all jut a kabuki dance. Designed to throw red meat at the base instead of doing the real hard work of delivering on their promises. I'm surprised a first class cynic like you buys into the hype.