Without exception, every colonel and general officer interrogated by investigators—Bailey included—insisted that from the moment Pat was killed, he wanted to immediately notify the Tillman family that fratricide was the cause of their son’s death. But each officer claimed that he felt obligated to wait until a thorough investigation had been completed in order to avoid telling “the family something that was not true,” as Nixon phrased it, “and it took a considerable time to get the truth.” All of them seemed to be reading from the same patently disingenuous script, reciting a series of
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