Rumsfeld Says He Was Not Involved in Cover-Up of Tillman Death

KWAME HOLMAN:

Army Ranger Pat Tillman died in April 2004 in Afghanistan. Initially, the Army said the former NFL star was killed by hostile fire. But five weeks later, after a widely publicized memorial service and the posthumous awarding to Tillman of the Silver Star for Bravery, it was revealed that Tillman's fellow soldiers shot him to death during a chaotic nighttime firefight in the Afghan mountains.

Ultimately, there were six military investigations into Tillman's death, raising questions as to whether the military deliberately withheld the truth. And at a congressional hearing in April, Tillman's brother, Kevin, a fellow Army Ranger, blasted the initial misreporting about his brother and asked for further inquiry.

KEVIN TILLMAN, Brother of Pat Tillman: It's a bit disingenuous to think that the administration did not know about what was going on, something so politically sensitive. So that's kind of what we were hoping you guys could get involved with and take a look.

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