The Army's belated and begrudged
findings of responsibility in the case of Army Ranger
Cpl. Pat Tillman should satisfy no one. They certainly do
not satisfy Tillman's family, which
responded with a statement calling for a Congressional
investigation:
The characterization of criminal negligence,
professional misconduct, battlefield incompetence,
concealment and destruction of evidence, deliberate
deception, and conspiracy to deceive are not "missteps."
These actions are malfeasance.
...But if that notoriety can serve as a catalyst to open
dozens of cases - many of the families known to us - of
troops who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan by
fratricide, and whose families, like us, were deceived
about the circumstances of these deaths.
Philip Barron is a St. Louis writer and author of the
blog Waveflux.