The murder of Pat Tillman is one of those things that if explained in plain language reads as conspiracy theory, because surely there's no way that the poster boy quarterback who quit to join the war grew disillusioned & was shot by his own unit before he could get publicly vocal

Anyone fawning over Bush for decrying active campaigns of misinformation has, at best, memory-holed this entire thing, where the covered-up murder of a man against the war he was fighting became martyrdom in service of that war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Tillman#Surrounding_Tillman's_death

Here's archived reporting from the AP in 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20090525150300/http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-07-26-tillman-friendly-fire_N.htm

speaking to the difference between "reads as" conspiracy and "is" conspiracy, I think the conversation in this thread (this comes towards the end of it) parses out a lot of the space around what is known and what isn't https://twitter.com/ExumAM/status/1385349942005301248