Now why would "orders from the top" come down to kill Kyle after they took great pains to clear not only him but erase every shred of evidence, including the bodies and the law enforcement report of when he personally killed two individuals at a gas station along Hwy 67 outside Dallas back in January 2009 when they allegedly tried to hijack his truck????
Well for one thing “the top” was not quite what it has become, and the gentleman hadn’t written his book and gotten famous. At the time he was just another recently-discharged veteran.
It’d be like trying to blame the Cubans or the Mafia if JFK had been shot in Boston in 1946.