Recorded on August 10, 2010 using a Flip Video camcorder.
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so here we are with russell bearer an
army ranger drain the iraq war when pattillman was there you were a member of
his team which goa pledgeswhen her a squadron errorsand you were there to date he diedseeing you came backwith his buddy and that's when this
whole cover-up came about that thefamily only gradually learned about two
and five weeks later there was the pressconference from the army's change did
not tied that's fantastic story chargingup the hill killing taliban people but
by friendly fire and that stories beingtold in this documentary called the
tillman storyandhow did you get involved with i guess
this movie that and the family songfantastically differentassess matthew filmmakersparticipateare happy to meetpet telnet where you in thisrangers squadron already and he came
into brother kevinobserverstwenty-four patentedspiderman binh an indictment afghanistanuh...stairway arrivedand what was your first impressionmy prescription was scrape u_s_'s
exactly expected expects siryou knowwas synchronyninetiesschoolarticulateswell-spokenshesbright individual that certain actionsyou know out for me watching the movie
it's just hardto think of him in kind of human terms
he looks like something out of the greeklegend you know one of the hercules for
something he so massive and i guess theyou maybe there are a lot of big guys in
the armywe hear about how the smallest kinda
squadron he befriended and sort of watchout for himbug what you think about it just
physically that that's had its endingvisited at using butfieldcontinously first song spells upstairs
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surroundings came around to itto the marshmallows obstructs dotand people to treat him like celebrity
that may indeed be reinvent hiscelebrity we will have people who work
with and i think i think there waspanama cityalonedistributed in arlingtoni think you're coming in and you got
your privilege uyou predicted that youreally doesn'tyou know how long it may be treated like
used a sexualbut there is there's a time zone iicatchoften you know being deployed talkingat length with slight colonels majors
you know it basically don't talk toprivate search specialist so you know
there was thatthis is an entity almost breakdown
director at times like a movie star wasin your best right and well they're notjustsomething or and i think he attractedyou know all kinds of peopleand altered towards themnow with this horrible tragedy happened
and he wasn't the only person killedthat daythere was a effort dennis tanmember of the squad who was inamerican uniformed was first killed gets
cable it strengthwind and his brother kevin was brought
again and toldcattlemen was deadthen i guess he freaked out but he was
told that he was killed by the talibanyou were told to go back with the body
back to the united states indiraspecifically told at that point do not
say anything if you gothey didn't really think that's
threatening davis's gasoline title and amyou know i mean there's they're acting
jobthat killed by air asbestos although
there wasthere's gonna be routes coming around in
and around us before espcially sothere's that backpackers wells was
killed by byrds killed by baghdad'sinterior dinnervery very disturbing thing for me it was
knowing that can withstand partly on thedirection yesso i did you know at that point what
kevin inexplicable role sounds pretty sopolicies on the air and havethe definitive answer alice i was happy
hearts day mistress soeverything is scarydo you think about in possibilities but
then i bread now russell that once youwere back in the united statesyou refused for three weeks to returntrue maybe it wasn't it wasn't that long
lives like parkerin what was your motivation therei would really insteadlooms shock starts slowly kind ofsimmered down a really sick go over the
events of the dayendangeringmade sense to me really kind of help
tradeuh... inouye stategropman military learning g stress on
these guys close family and a halfsheets you justhoon one can ever in that situation
slotsserving ap should have happenedaccused of trading on easternand that you diddigit in where you punished for those
who do they say you are a very emotionalstress in the understood yeahfunds for had considerablefifteenand construct words for that one thing
was a lot of thesethough burksand how much longer did you see in the
army afterthat a probe of the april twenty second
two thousand four when he was killed byreligious i wasn't for another yearsaid spand then what have you been doing since
i had to say you need your son pat inhonor of cattlemy son made my son and daughter patrick
therebom he's passed away on charity or themthemselvesanother little boy crescendoto get marriedyou know that lifeand what is when you look at this this
timing the moviemakes people angry i think it iswith you can save we hadlies about why we went toward begin with
with the weapons of mass destructionthat weren't there they tried to createyou know what he wrote togoes to warand we have that uh...premiseabout jessicaend armywishing officer on the issues you stdwho would with a trader also present is
this heroic case and that fell apart butit was kind of like anything that would
happen to a soldier was going to befodder forthis victoryit didn't work she never somethingand um...ended at the end when we have the five
general show up for this hearing alongwithruns field the secretary of defense and
they all tonight getting this bompete for memo from of all people general
theremake crystalthe one who was just removed from firm i
mean it just seemsyou know like us adds an episode forward
in the military in the united states andthis that you've just come out of there
and think who can you trust and sirwhat's the point enoughso what do you say twenty you can send
your kids when they saydead you were in the army i want to go
to you know if they want to win listyeltsin told him as much as offeredit's you knowabout violence growing up and options
and an all-clearthey're smart enough to his lawyers and
doctors are or whatever you knowsprogus's whatever to choose to doadvocate alluh... you know mentionedsoonbut you know i think there's there's a
lot of people have been answered as wellthat you cannot trustplucky retention still do hold on to do
thisall armchair strength valuesdisputeit finally what do you thinkthe petulant story really tells us or
should mean to us what should peopletake away from thisattendee diversification ofmovie that jiju all the factsstory thereroad frontage vasant it's it's verywell-balancedon and hopefullyyou can understand what happens nextpartners useand to me that look closer atacceptancecoming from you know terrylook closer
The Oversight Committee holds a hearing, "The Tillman Fratricide: What the Leadership of the Defense Department Knew." The hearing is part of an ongoing investigation and follows a previous hearing held in April. Witnesses will include former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Former Commander of U.S. Central Command Gen. John P. Abizaid (Retired), Former Chair of Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard B. Myers (Retired), Former Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command Gen. Bryan Douglas Brown (Retired). Gen. Kensinger has been served with a subpoena, but has not been able to be located over the past several days and will not appear. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton questions Secretary Rumsfeld on apparent gaps in his preparation to testify.
Keith Olbermann asks Wes Clark about the cover-up of Tillman's murder. Clark says orders for such a whitewash would have to come from "the very top." The Rabbit Hole on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/rabbitholenews
Arizona Cardinal football player turned Army Ranger, killed in action during operation Iraqi Freedom. Tyler Griffin Reporting (2004) - www.Mindshift-Media.com
I Wrote this song for our fighting men and their families.
I do NOT support the wars.
I DO support our Brothers and Sons who fight them!
On this night I dedicated this song to Pat Tillman. At the time I had no idea of the lies that had been told.
We are just starting to learn the truth about what really happened to Pat.
Jim Axelrod previews at tonight's "Evening News" stories. At center stage are hearings on the death of Pat Tillman, the former NFL star who was killed in Afghanistan. (CBSNews.com)
The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform holds a hearing entitled "Misleading Information from the Battlefield." The hearing focuses on the death of Army Ranger Specialist Patrick Tillman in Afghanistan and the capture and rescue of Army Private Jessica Lynch in Iraq. The Committee examines why inaccurate accounts of these two incidents were disseminated, the sources and motivations for the accounts, and whether the appropriate Administration officials have been held accountable. Rep. Elijah Cummings questions Specialist Patrick Tillman's brother Kevin Tillman about communications inside the White House related to his brother.
MARY TILLMAN: The documentary in part is to try to present Pat as a human being and not this caricature that was created. But the biggest reason for this documentary is to point out the horrible way that he was used. His death was lied about by the military, by the government. But he's not an isolated incident. This happens on a regular basis. It's a systemic problem. It's not isolated to the Bush Administration. It's happened for years. And it's tolerated.
Telling the truth about Pat Tillman at
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The Oversight Committee holds a hearing, "The Tillman Fratricide: What the Leadership of the Defense Department Knew." The hearing is part of an ongoing investigation and follows a previous hearing held in April. Witnesses will include former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Former Commander of U.S. Central Command Gen. John P. Abizaid (Retired), Former Chair of Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard B. Myers (Retired), Former Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command Gen. Bryan Douglas Brown (Retired). Gen. Kensinger has been served with a subpoena, but has not been able to be located over the past several days and will not appear. Chairman Waxman questions witnesses on a memo he received early on indicating that it was likely a case of fratricide.
Pat Tillman was a professional football player with the Arizona Cardinals.
In response to the September 11, 2001 incident, he passed up a $3.6 million contract and joined the Army. His sacrifice became made him a symbol of patriotism and a poster child for Army recruiters.
Pat Tillman came to his senses and turned against the wars. Through friends and family, he made contact with anti-war icon Noam Chomsky.
Perhaps Tillman was ready to make a public statement of opposition to the wars, which would have been a public relations catastrophe for the Army. We will never know. Perhaps the Army knew he was going to go public with a statement of opposition. We will never know.
Pat Tillman took three bullets through the head on April 22, 2004. He was shot at close range by his own men while on paatrol in Afghanistan.
A massive coverup followed, in which the public was told that Tillman had been killed by hostile fire. He was awarded the Silver star. The conspiracy to deceive Tillman's grieving family and the public went to the highest levels of the Army, and centered on one Lt. General Stanley McChrystal.
Eventually, the fraud was exposed, and a half-hearted congressional investigation followed.
Pat Tillman is still dead. His mother, Mary Tillman, still grieves. Lt. General Stanley McChrystal was promoted to supreme commander of the Afghan theater.
