[Beef]

Someone either in the Pentagon(Rumsfeld) or the White House(Cheney) gave an explicit directive to the eyewitnesses to lie about the circumstances of his death.

Not true. Information was withheld on the ground only hours after his death. Soldiers that were there when he died were told not to tell his brother (who was only a few miles ahead) how he died. Not a chance that anything from Washington could have made it out there that quickly.

Try to blame it on the White House if you want but not a chance they could have withheld information that quickly.