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“THE [UNTOLD] TILLMAN STORY”
President Obama & Congress‟s
Bipartisan Whitewash of General Stanley
McChrystal‟s
Central Role in the Cover-Up of
Pat Tillman‟s Friendly
-Fire Death
Guy Montag, feralfirefighter.blogspot.com
August 14, 2010 [Updated 12-28-10]
―War is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the
old, of idealists by cynics and of
troops by politicians.‖
-- Chris Hendges (2009)
―
It went up to the two-star level and the two-star took it right up to the four-
star level. … ‗
Here is
the steak dinner, but we‘re giving it to you on this … garbage can cover. You know, you got it,
you work it
.‘‖
-- Brigadier General Howard Yellen (May 2004)
―He [Secretary of Defense] knows the administration‘s position on the matter was a cover
-
up. …
But it worked.
And they didn‘t want the president to look bad.‖ … ―[The Secretary of Defense]
never told a lie, at least not in the way he could be caught in it.
… Nonetheless, they wouldbecome the government‘s official pronouncement on the day‘s action.‖ … ―And the me
dia gavethem their forum, always ascertaining beforehand that their allegations were borne out by facts if
not the truth.‖
-- Senator James Webb,
―Something to Die For,‖
(1991)
THE [UNTOLD TILLMAN STORY2
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page #:Prologue
: Iddo Netanyahu & Kevin Tillman‟s “Battle for the Truth”
4
. . .
Letter to “The Tillman Story”
Director Amir Bar-Lev (July 26
th
2010) 9
“Did They Teach You How to Lie Yet?”
--
Senator Webb‟s Betrayal
of Pat Tillman 15
―Something to Die For‖
-- Letter to Mary Tillman (February 4
th
2008) 16A
Sense of Honor‖
-- Letter to Senator James Webb (April 3
rd
2008) 21
―Did They Teach You How to Lie Yet?‖
–
Letter to Senator Webb (May 26
th
2009) 29
“The Tillman Story”
Script -- Congress Fumbled the Ball 36
“
Th
e [Untold] Tillman Story”
-- Congres
s Didn‟t Fumble, They Threw the Game
: 41
Hearing:
―Misleading In
formation
from the Battlefield‖
(April 24, 2007) 45
General Wallace‘s Review of Tillman Fratricide Investigations
(July 31, 2007) 56Hearing:
―What the Leadership of
the Dept. of Defense Knew
‖
(August 1, 2007) 66
Report: ―Misleading Information from the Battlefield‖
(July 17, 2008) 81
“The [Untold] Tillman Story”
-- President
Obama‟s
Big-Time Fumble: 84
―Barely a Footnote‖
–
Superbowl XLIII and the NFL‘s Betrayal of Pat Tillman
85
―The Emperor‘s General‖ –
President Obama
‘s Whitewash of
Gen. McChrystal 87
―Lies Borne Out by Facts, If Not the Truth‖ –
NYT‘s Thom Shanker‘s Whitewash
94
―Did They Teach
You How to Lie Yet?
‖
–
Congress‘s Gen. McChrystal Whitewash
102Senate Confirmation
Hearing for Gen. McChrystal‘s Promotion
(June 2009) 112Senate
Armed Services Committee‘s Sec
ret McChrystal Hearing (May 2008) 123
Conclusion:
“
Maybe It Had Been Trash from the Get-Go, Myths to Feed the Public
”
129
―A Country Such As This‖
129
―Remember the Iconoclast, Not the Icon‖
135
―My King a Lost
King, and Lost Soldiers My M
en‖
137
Postscri
pt: “
This Story is Not Over Yet
”
139
―He Who Shall Not Be Fact Checked‖ –
CNAS‘s Andrew Exum
144
―Where Men Win Glory‖ –
Letters to Jon Krakauer 153
. . .Epilogue:
“That‟s My Hero” –
Pat Tillman, Rachel Corrie, & Yoni Netanyahu 160
THE [UNTOLD TILLMAN STORY3
APPENDICES
Dept. of Defense Inspector General
‘s
Tillman Investigation (March 26, 2007)
House Oversight Committee
‘s
1
st
Tillman Hearing (April 24, 2007)
–
Gen. McChrystal Invited to Testify Before Congress (July 13, 2007)
Gen. Wallace
‘s
Review of the Tillman Investigations (July 31, 2007)
–
House Oversight Committee‘s 2
nd
Tillman Hearing (August 1, 2007)
–
Gen. McChrystal Did Not Testify at 2
nd
Tillman Hearing (August 1, 2007)
Senate Armed Services Committee Secret McChrystal Hearing (May 15, 2008)
Senator James Webb Interview - NPR Diane Rhem Show (May 27, 2008)
House Oversight Committee‘s Report on Tillman Fratricide
(July 17, 2008)
–
―Did Congress Cover for McChrystal‖
- Diane Rhem Show (May 15, 2009)
–
―The McC
hryst
al Protection Act of 2009‖
(May 20, 2009)
–
Senate Armed Services Committee McChrystal Hearing (June 2, 2009)
--
Gen. McChrystal‘s Contradictory Congre
ssional Testimony (June 2, 2009)
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