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This post, written by Kathy Kattenburg, originally appeared on Shakesville
The White House will not release records to a congressional investigation of Pat Tillman's "friendly fire" death in Afghanistan:
The White House has refused to give Congress documents about the death of former NFL player Pat Tillman, with White House counsel Fred F. Fielding saying that certain papers relating to discussion of the friendly-fire shooting "implicate Executive Branch confidentiality interests."
White House and Pentagon officials have turned over about 10,000 pages of material, but Waxman and Davis said those papers do not include critical documents that would show communications between senior administration officials and top military officers shortly after Tillman was killed in Afghanistan in 2004.
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"The main focus of the committee's investigation is to examine what the White House and the leadership of the Department of Defense knew about Corporal Tillman's death and when they knew it," Waxman and Davis said in a letter to Fielding. "Unfortunately, the document production from the White House sheds virtually no light on these matters."
The Chief Executive and all the other senior members of his branch of government are criminals and liars, and that is why "Executive Privilege" are their two favorite words.
Tagged as: tillman, iraq war, bush administration
Kathy Kattenburg is a freelance writer and editor working from northern New Jersey. She blogs at Liberty Street (her own blog), and at Shakesville.
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