Bush's Guard service may affect Miers nomination (press recycling this story AGAIN)

Austin-American Statesmen ^ | October 4, 2005 | Ken Herman

[Republican Wildcat]

WASHINGTON -- A former Texas lottery official, who claimed that then-Gov. George W. Bush's desire to cover up his National Guard record helped steer decisions about a key lottery contract, said he wants to talk to senators about Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers' possible role in that effort.

"If I were to be subpoenaed to come to the thing, I would come," said Lawrence Littwin, who filed a lawsuit after he was fired as the lottery's executive director in 1997. "I would say the committee, I think, would be interested."

Littwin claimed in a federal lawsuit that lottery operator GTECH held sway over the Texas Lottery Commission because former GTECH lobbyist Ben Barnes was involved in helping get Bush into the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War.

GTECH, which settled the suit in 1999 and paid Littwin $300,000 without admitting wrongdoing, said in court filings that Littwin's Guard-related claims were "preposterous."

A Bush appointee, Miers served as chairwoman of the Texas Lottery Commission when it was mired in controversy. President Bush cited that record Monday in announcing his nomination of his longtime friend and adviser to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

Littwin was hired in 1997 to replace Nora Linares, who had been fired after it was revealed that her boyfriend was working as a consultant for GTECH, the Rhode Island-based firm that has run the Texas Lottery since it began in 1992.

[Republican Wildcat]

(Didn't see this in a search...hope it wasn't already posted).

Here we go again. The press and the left are going to recycle the guard story yet again.

[Army Air Corps]

Ah, the Austin-American Statesman earns its nicknames once a again (Pravda - Texas Edition, Austin-Unamerican Bolshevik, etc.).

This from a newspaper that wept in despair at the implosion of the USSR.

[SteveMcKing]

...Ben Barnes was involved in helping get Bush into the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War.

Because Guard service is soooo dishonorable.

[SandRat]

I never thought I put this up on MEMOGATE ever again but ---

[wildcatf4f3]

is austin like the center of the punkboy universe?

[colorado tanker]

It's deja vu all over again, baby!

[Larry Lucido]

I won't believe this story until I see the documents.

[smoothsailing]

The Austin UnAmerican Spaceman.

Paging Dan Rather

[MNJohnnie]

Gee does this come with fake but accurate documents too?

[Republican Wildcat]

LOL

[Americanwolf]

imagine that the press digs up another witness...(how long before this one gets exposed..)

I just can figure out why??? what damage do they think they are going to do with this... or is this just a sign of the liberal media acting out in rage...because they have not gotten anything to stick...

[decal]

"Gee does this come with fake but accurate documents too?"

It'll be in the Sunday edition - it'll take the place of Parade.

[Bush gal in LA]

AGAIN!? Uuuuggh!

[Republican Wildcat]

Looks like this guy is trying to be the next Anita Hill.

[taxesareforever]

Does this mean that Dan Rather will return as CBS anchor?

[Alien Gunfighter]

Here we go again. The press and the left are going to recycle the guard story yet again.

Yeah, well that's the the tactic. Like the Jenin 'massacre', they wait six months until almost everyone has forgotten about it, and trot it out again as if it were a fact.

[Republican Wildcat]

bttt

[BerniesFriend]

In a related matter, lawyers for Saddam Hussein said that their main defense in his upcoming trial is that Saddam found out that President Bush had avoided service in the National Guard and had to be taken out...developing