Rumsfeld denies cover-up in NFL's star's combat death
AFP, August, 2007
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WASHINGTON (AFP) — Former US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld Wednesday denied the Pentagon had mounted a cover-up over the "friendly fire" death of American footballer-turned soldier Pat Tillman.
Rumsfeld braved a congressional hearing for the first-time since resigning last year, to testify about claims military brass disguised the fact that Tillman was accidently gunned down in 2004 in Afghanistan by fellow US soldiers.
"I know that I would not engage in a cover-up," Rumsfeld told the House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
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"I know that no one in the White House suggested such a thing to me. I know that the gentlemen sitting next to me are men of enormous integrity and would not participate in something like that," he said referring to retired former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard Myers and other generals.
"Of course, there's a difference between ...
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