detailing the investigation and exposes the truth about General McChrystal, explaining it to Jon Stewart:

Krakauer: Friendly fire happens and it's sad how that happened to him but what's worse is what happened to him after he was killed. The way he was used by the last administration to advance their political ends and that's upsetting to me.

The Tillman family warned President Obama not to put the General in charge of the Afghanistan mission.

The parents of slain Army Ranger and NFL star Pat Tillman voiced concerns Tuesday that the general who played a role in mischaracterizing his death could be put in charge of military operations in Afghanistan. In a brief interview with The Associated Press, Pat Tillman Sr. accused Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal of covering up the circumstances of the 2004 slaying. "I do believe that guy participated in a falsified homicide investigation," Pat Tillman Sr. said.

He later apologized for his role in the cover up.

I bet his apology made the Tillmans forget about all their troubles. The President should have listened to their warning.

There are parts of the Rolling Stone article that nobody is talking about, but should. It was primarily the center left wing blogs that screamed about the way the military high command lied and then covered up the true events that led to the death of Pat Tillman and General McChrystal played a pivotal role.

But it was during his next stint – overseeing the military's most elite units, including the Rangers, Navy Seals and Delta Force – that McChrystal took part in a cover-up that would have destroyed the career of a lesser man.

After Cpl. Pat Tillman, the former-NFL-star-turned-Ranger, was accidentally killed by his own troops in Afghanistan in April 2004, McChrystal took an active role in creating the impression that Tillman had died at the hands of Taliban fighters. He signed off on a falsified recommendation for a Silver Star that suggested Tillman had been killed by enemy fire. (McChrystal would later claim he didn't read the recommendation closely enough – a strange excuse for a commander known for his laserlike attention to minute details.)

A week later, McChrystal sent a memo up the chain of command, specifically warning that President Bush should avoid mentioning the cause of Tillman's death. "If the circumstances of Corporal Tillman's death become public," he wrote, it could cause "public embarrassment" for the president.

"The false narrative, which McChrystal clearly helped construct, diminished Pat's true actions," wrote Tillman's mother, Mary, in her book Boots on the Ground by Dusk. McChrystal got away with it, she added, because he was the "golden boy" of Rumsfeld and Bush, who loved his willingness to get things done, even if it included bending the rules or skipping the chain of command. Nine days after Tillman's death, McChrystal was promoted to major general.

How does a man, no matter how gifted he is, be given a free pass not only by the military, but also by the media? What is their function? Why does every piece of usuful information have to be in the form of an exclusive? Or are they that afraid to call events as they actually when it comes to a General in our armed forces? It was despicable.

John Karakuer wrote a book detailing the investigation and exposes the truth about General McChrystal.

As I said, blogs like C&L covered this cover-up with a sharp eye and we have the videos to prove it. Here's what Pat's brother had to say: