A report into the death of Army Ranger Pat Tillman recommends action is taken against officers

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

A report into the death of Army Ranger Pat Tillman recommends action is taken against officers who passed on misleading and inaccurate information and delayed reporting their belief that he was killed by his fellow soldiers.



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[donkeyotay]

1. When will those in command be accountable?

The Army made propaganda out of Pat Tillman's death because they had to keep morale and recruitments up for gwb's war(s). Just as with Abu Ghraib, these people were probably carrying out policies, not making them.

[stevedeshazer]

2. They won't. Period.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2782431

[maddezmom]

3. 9 Officers Faulted for Aftermath of Tillman Death

Officers Faulted for Aftermath of Tillman Death
By DAVID S. CLOUD
WASHINGTON, March 26 — Army officers violated regulations and misled members of Cpl. Pat Tillman’s family by failing to disclose promptly in 2004 that he had been accidentally killed by other American soldiers, a Pentagon investigation concluded Monday.

The investigators recommended that the nine officers, four of them generals, be subjected to disciplinary action
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/27/washington/27tillman.html?pagewanted=print