Posted on 09/15/2004 3:06:48 PM PDT by Isherwood
I see calls for Kerry to release his DoD records by submitting a SF-180 all the time, but I never hear anything about Bush submitting one. Has he? If not, why not?
Bush did. Kerry won't.
Bush has apparently not signed a 180. He reportedly
did give an executive order for the release of his
own records, but I have yet to see the exact wording
of the order.
There's nothing easily found on the White House site
related to it. My guess is it was a verbal order.
I'm confident that if Kerry dared Bush to a mutual
signing, Bush would accept the challenge (warning,
of course, that it would turn up nothing not already
release), but I'm confident that the Kerry Kamp is
simply not going to "go there".
I might add ...
If Kerry even addresses the 180 issue, you can expect
him to game it.
Anyone tossing 180s his way needs to have them mostly
filled out already, to ensure that:
* anyone (general public), can request
* ALL documents, and
* UNDELETED documents, from
* ALL archives
Precisely how to do this is not obvious, and anyone
running a petition campaign needs to address this,
lest they give JfK some unintended weasel-room.
One site running a petition has an HMTLized SF-180
on display, and it's blank.
That's fine if the point is merely to raise awareness,
and there's no expectation of Kerry action. But if a
Kerry signature is possible, a blank SF-180 is asking
for trouble.
Only join SF-180 efforts being run by people who fully
understand this form (and I'm not one of them).
I wonder if the form is available in PDF format. We could start sending them to Kerry - with the not so subtle hint that he sign it and turn it in.
President Bush signed SF-180 last Feb
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