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Title: White House, Pentagon cite executive privilege to hold up documents on friendly fire victim Tillman
Source:
Raw Story
URL Source: http://rawstory.com/news/2007/White ... on_hold_up_documents_0713.html
Published: Jul 13, 2007
Author: Michael Roston
Post Date: 2007-07-13 17:06:59 by Zipporah
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Views: 285
Comments: 23
"[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.
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.
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#14. To: Zipporah (#0)
Busy CYAing, eh, liar in chief? You can bet your sweet buns they are busy trying to find and scrub or re-hide memos regarding playing his death up for all it was worth.
#15. To: rowdee (#14)
they knew that it was friendly fire Id bet.. and I wonder if there is evidence to that no doubt and evidence showing they were trying to use his death for their own gain.. this is so sick
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Replies to Comment # 14. they are busy trying to find and scrub or re-hide memos regarding playing his death up for all it was worth.
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