Dems want Rumsfeld, generals to testify in Tillman case
San Francisco Chronicle
07/16/07
House Democrats, suspecting that top Pentagon officials covered up the friendly fire death of football star and Army Ranger Pat Tillman, are calling former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and five generals to testify about the San Jose’s native 2004 fatal shooting by solders in his unit in Afghanistan. The Democrats’ most tenacious investigator, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Los Angeles, announced Monday that he has invited Rumsfeld, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers and retired Gen. John Abizaid, who oversaw operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, to testify at an Aug. 1 hearing. Waxman’s goal is clear from the title of the hearing — ‘The Tillman Fratricide: What the Leadership of the Defense Department Knew.’ Rumsfeld and the others may resist testifying before the committee — a media event sure to be captured by every TV camera on Capitol Hill...
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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rumsfeld
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tillman
07/16/07
House Democrats, suspecting that top Pentagon officials covered up the friendly fire death of football star and Army Ranger Pat Tillman, are calling former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and five generals to testify about the San Jose’s native 2004 fatal shooting by solders in his unit in Afghanistan. The Democrats’ most tenacious investigator, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Los Angeles, announced Monday that he has invited Rumsfeld, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers and retired Gen. John Abizaid, who oversaw operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, to testify at an Aug. 1 hearing. Waxman’s goal is clear from the title of the hearing — ‘The Tillman Fratricide: What the Leadership of the Defense Department Knew.’ Rumsfeld and the others may resist testifying before the committee — a media event sure to be captured by every TV camera on Capitol Hill...
http://tinyurl.com/2bbzhv
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rumsfeld
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tillman
rudkla - 17. Jul, 11:57
