Today's news:
- The White House said today President Bush was never told that former NFL star Pat Tillman was killed by his fellow Army Rangers at a time Army officials knew the truth, but told his family and the public that Tillman was shot by the enemy.
Lawmakers and Tillman's family raised questions at a House hearing Tuesday about whether former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and White House officials knew the death was by friendly fire, but allowed the Army to spin a false story about the way the San Jose native died.
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said today that the details of Tillman's death never made it to the president.
"There's no indication that the president got any word that there was questions surrounding his death, other than what has been reported in the paper," Perino said.
A couple things:
(1) Note that Perino didn't say the President didn't know -- she said there's no indication that he was told. Well, she's his spokesperson. Was he told? But whoever wrote this story seems to have been fooled by the non-denial denial.
(2) If you were the President, and someone let you step in it by failing to tell you this stuff, wouldn't you be bullshit? Wouldn't you want someone's head? So why hasn't that happened?
I would be inclined to think the President didn't know and had nothing to do with the cover-up. But these things seem odd.
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