Is this a good example of how the military takes care of its own?

Army clamped down after Tillman's death By SCOTT LINDLAW, Associated Press Writer
Fri Apr 20, 6:01 PM ET

Within hours of Pat Tillman's death, the Army went into information-lockdown mode, cutting off phone and Internet connections at a base in Afghanistan, posting guards on a wounded platoon mate, and ordering a sergeant to burn Tillman's uniform.

New investigative documents reviewed by The Associated Press describe how the military sealed off information about Tillman's death from all but a small ring of soldiers. Officers quietly passed their suspicion of friendly fire up the chain to the highest ranks of the military, but the truth did not reach Tillman's family for five weeks.

The clampdown, and the misinformation issued by the military, lie at the heart of a burgeoning congressional investigation.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070420/...F_NZJvBEmWwvIE

Here's more on this as the story unfolds about how the U.S. Army (and quite possibly the spinmasters of the Bush Administration since disinformation and propaganda spoonfed to the U.S. corporate media is a tactic that they are quite good at and well-known for) used Pat Tillman's "friendly-fire" death for propaganda purporses, spinning this negligence instead into a myth about how Tillman died a hero's death. This type of disinformation has been used often to impact the media. For example, much of the famous Jessica Lynch story (http://www.government-propaganda.com/jessica-lynch.html) is now known to have been fabricated for popular media consumption to boost support of the illegal war in Iraq. The Hollywood fed American public needs its heros and myths to manufacture consent for the military-industrial complex and its wars of aggression.

Ranger alleges cover-up in Tillman case
By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press Writer
Tue Apr 24, 6:14 PM ET

An Army Ranger who was with Pat Tillman when the former football star was cut down by friendly fire in Afghanistan said Tuesday a commanding officer had ordered him to keep quiet about what happened.

The military at first portrayed Tillman's death as the result of heroic combat with the enemy. Army Spc. Bryan O'Neal told a congressional hearing that when he got the chance to talk to Tillman's brother, who had been in a nearby convoy on the fateful day, "I was ordered not to tell him what happened."

"You were ordered not to tell him?" repeated Rep. Henry Waxman (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

"Roger that, Sir," replied O'Neal, dressed in his Army uniform.

The revelation came as committee members questioned whether, and when, top Defense officials and the White House knew that Tillman's death in eastern Afghanistan three years ago was actually a result of gunfire from fellow U.S. soldiers.

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