What you have is what is most probably a tragic accident being turned into a recruiting tool. And no one has come forth and said this is the person that made the decision to falsify official documents and these are the people that complied with that decision and knowingly filed false reports.
And when congress asks what actually happened, executive privilege is invoked to cover up the falsification of official documents, which is a criminal offense.

Executive privilege is supposed to protect those who advise the president so they can give their best candid advice without fear of it being used against them in the future, but it is not supposed to be used to cover up crimes.

The people in Tillman's unit knew what happened, but somewhere between there and the media, the story got changed from one that would not be very flattering to the war effort to one that would be inspirational to the war effort. The president used the made up story and benefited from it.

Now the question is, who ordered the falsification of documents, and if it was the president, or Karl Rove that actually made that decision, then they are not shielded by executive privilege, because executive privilege does not protect criminal behavior. That's why Nixon had to hand over the Watergate tapes.

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“ The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.”

Adam Smith , The Wealth of Nations 1776

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"
FDR's second Inaugural Address

if you look back I answered that question before it was asked...i.e. several high ranking officers being admonished for their part in it...they had Rumsfeld up there...as I said, they did not connect any dots to him, I would think with their hatred of him and his polices they would be crowing from the rooftops if they could.....and I will say again, to suppose that the sec. def had zero knowledge until after the fact BUT the pres. did is hard to fathom...this smacks of the ole plame game...rove and Bush just HAD to know and HAD to engineer it.....they just had too...because? because B.D.S. ( bush derangement syndrome) has taken over.

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No individual can plan his own existence in their view.

So the state planners must arrogate to themselves the right to manipulate any sector of the economic system if the good of “society” or the “general welfare” is paramount.

Ipso- if the rights of the individual get in the way, the rights of the individual must be sublimated.

The Road to Serfdom
FA Hayek (interpretation)