Sometimes issues come up in the national media that makes me go, “What the hell are they thinking?”

I have said that a lot this year about the Bush Administration. Many times it is politics and the “gotcha” game that we see every day from both sides of the political spectrum and I brush it off with a smile and laugh.

Not this time.

Most recently I said “What the hell are they thinking” last Friday night when Keith Olbermann announced on his show, Countdown, that the Bush Administration was invoking Executive Privilege in regards to the investigation surrounding Pat Tillman’s friendly fire death in Afghanistan.

I’m a person who does not normally believe everything I hear from the media, so I thought there must be a mistake and Olbermann was just going after Bush as he does throughout his show, along with his nightly slam on O’Reilly, Gonzales, etc.

I was wrong.

As one who enlisted voluntarily in the military a few years ago and spent 12 years of my youth defending our country, I learned early on about loyalty, duty, honor, integrity, and selfless service. Pat Tillman gave up a lot more than most of us to serve his country having turned down millions as a professional football player to go after the bad guys.

Every life lost in any war is more valuable than any Executive Privilege to save the career of any General, any politician, or any political appointee in any administration.

Nobody cares about your Executive Privilege in this case, Mr. Bush. All this does is cause deeper wounds to the families and the Nation. If someone in your Administration covered up something about the Tillman death, they deserve to be outed. They deserve to be fired. We deserve to know. If they wrote an e-mail about how to cover up or spin that his death was due to friendly fire, we deserve to see it.

All the Tillman family and all those families who have lost loved ones fighting this war want is closure. I’ve seen the look in some of these families’ eyes, Mr. Bush, and they deserve to have closure.

The Bush Administration apparently knows nothing about loyalty, duty, honor, integrity, and selfless service.

Do your duty Mr. Bush. Do the honorable thing Mr. Bush. Have some integrity Mr. Bush. Show some loyalty to the military personnel you sent to war Mr. Bush – Drop the Executive Privilege claim in Pat Tillman’s death.