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Title: White House, Pentagon cite executive privilege to hold up documents on friendly fire victim Tillman
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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
Keywords: None
Views: 241
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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#1. To: Zipporah (#0)
No coverup, just more daily executive privilege for no particular reason.
Ron Paul for President
Huh???? They're just plain screwing with us now, just for the fun of it. I can't wait for a Democratic president to come in and declassify all this crap so we can finally know exactly what they were up to all these years.
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡
What the frick is this?? When I saw this story I thought what on earth are they trying to hide ?? Can you imagine the reaction of the Tillman family?
Was Cheney anywhere around when this murder took place. [Wait, I'm not sure he's in the executive ... that's what he says anyway.]
Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say 'what should be the reward of such sacrifices?' Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship, plough, sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!”
My exact reaction..only my reaction included several words typically depicted with --> *#% ~!&%#* Its beyond comprehension IMO ..
.. seems reasonable now doesnt it considering .. this is nonsense ..well worse than nonsense..
We heard the same refrain when Clinton was in office...Oh for a republican to become president and air all the secrets. It did not happen then and wont in 2009. Too many people believe there are two parties.
Amen.
Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say 'what should be the reward of such sacrifices?' Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship, plough, sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!”
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡
I didn't notice any subpoenas flying until very recently. There are distinct differences between the two major parties, a key one being that they now hate each other. Which is a good thing.
Hate each other??? Surely you jest. They sleep together in the same bed at nite and in the morning they go to opposite sides of the aisle, huff and puff all day long for the benefit of the electorate and then retire to the booze parties at nite.
no kidding I hope they don't just continue where this gang leaves off.
Ron Paul for President
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.
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
That's the way it is. You don't tell on me and I won't tell on you. They're all just one happy group of corrupted criminals who know that it is in their interests to keep silent on the important stuff. Richard W.
When a professional politician remains in Washington for fifty years, there is something wrong with the system. In their debates, the Founding Fathers spoke of "citizen legislators" that would serve their country for a season then return home to resume a normal life. How far astray we have gone.
If the autopsy was correct and Pat took three rounds to the head, this was an ordered hit, by whomever. You just do not take those hits unless you have a very, very good sniper team doing the work. Whomever did not want him cycling out and getting with Noam Chomsky to reveal what he had learned about our "efforts" over there, and taking himself down as a poster-boy for this insane war. Hell, if you'll take down NYC, what's one grunt?
Oh, like Clinton did with all of Bush the First's dirty laundry? What color is the sky in your world?
The "Department of Defense" has never won a war. The "War Department" was undefeated.
They are political whores...........nothing is too low for them to stoop to. Look at what they did with Jessica Lynch........what would make it better than that? Why, a national football hero who lays asides millions for his country! And then it started falling apart at the seams, as some fellow soldier couldn't stand not having the truth come out--and that poor sucker has probably been discharged as a nut cake with mental problems BEFORE the service! Nothing is too low............look at the 'poor' caring liar in chief--he can't handle attending a single solitary funeral, but has the audacity to have multiple photo op sessions at Walter Reed---well, that is, until the truth comes out about how badly the service men and women have it there! There is no shame............and certainly no honor in this lyin sack of shit or his administration. And I better quit writing about it cause I am about to explode....and I want to keep my language a step above the gutter, anyways.
ewe dun good, kid.
I do believe Mr. Bush has crossed over completely into self-parody. When's he going to go ahead and legally change his name to "Richard M. Nixon?"
- - - - - - - - - - - His personal effects, specifically his daily journal, were never returned to his family. Too many obvious errors for the military to have botched this routine process up without guidance from their evil civilian masters.
#2. To: Zipporah (#0)
#3. To: Zipporah (#0)
#4. To: robin (#1)
#5. To: Zipporah (#0)
#6. To: Mekons4 (#2)
Huh????
#7. To: ghostdogtxn (#3)
Executive Privilege? So we should just assume the worst. Bush ordered Tillman's murder.
#8. To: Mekons4 (#2)
. I can't wait for a Democratic president to come in and declassify all this crap so we can finally know exactly what they were up to all these years.
#9. To: Cynicom (#8)
Too many people believe there are two parties.
#10. To: Cynicom (#8)
#11. To: Cynicom (#8)
Too many people believe there are two parties.
#12. To: Mekons4 (#11)
There are distinct differences between the two major parties, a key one being that they now hate each other.
#13. To: Mekons4 (#2)
I can't wait for a Democratic president to come in and declassify all this crap so we can finally know exactly what they were up to all these years.
#14. To: Zipporah (#0)
#15. To: rowdee (#14)
they are busy trying to find and scrub or re-hide memos regarding playing his death up for all it was worth.
#16. To: Cynicom (#8)
Too many people believe there are two parties.
#17. To: Arete (#16)
That's the way it is. You don't tell on me and I won't tell on you.
#18. To: The Thread (#16)
#19. To: Mekons4 (#2)
I can't wait for a Democratic president to come in and declassify all this crap so we can finally know exactly what they were up to all these years.
#20. To: Zipporah (#15)
#21. To: rowdee (#20)
#22. To: Zipporah (#0)
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. -- H. L. Mencken
#23. To: lodwick (#18)
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