Posted on 07/16/2004 10:45:53 AM PDT by areafiftyone
WASHINGTON - The Associated Press asked a federal judge Friday to order the Pentagon (news - web sites) to quickly turn over a full copy of President Bush (news - web sites)'s military service record.
The White House has released partial documentation of Bush's military service in the Texas Air National Guard but has not complied with the news service's Freedom of Information Act request for any record archived at a state library records center in Texas, the AP said in a court filing.
Records released so far do not put to rest questions over whether Bush fulfilled his National Guard service for a period during the Vietnam War, the AP argued in papers filed in federal court in New York.
Those records came from federal records clearinghouses. Texas law requires separate record keeping for state National Guard service, and those records should exist on microfilm in Austin, the AP said.
"A significant, ongoing controversy exists over the president's military service during the Vietnam War, specifically whether he performed his required service between May and October 1972," lawyers for the AP wrote.
There also are allegations that potentially embarrassing material was removed from Bush's military file in 1997, when he was running for re-election as Texas governor, the AP said.
"The public has an intense and legitimate interest in knowing the facts concerning the president's military service. Reviewing the microfilm copy of the personnel file at the Texas Records center could well answer the questions that have been raised," the lawyers wrote.
The news service asked U.S. District Judge Harold Baer to hear arguments in the case and to direct the Pentagon to comply with the FOIA request within three days.
AP first sought the Texas records in March, and sued the Pentagon in April over the allegedly slow response.
The Pentagon said in June that military payroll records that could more fully document Bush's whereabouts during his service in the Texas Air National Guard were inadvertently destroyed. And microfilm containing the pertinent National Guard payroll records was damaged and could not be salvaged, according to the Defense Department.
You know, this would be funny if it wasn't so sickening. Rats letting out their dogs because the GOP (spin) busted Goldberg and pressure put on Lurch --- value of Americans, VN legacy, flip-flop blow outs, divorce records, tax records, etc, etc. AP seaks release my big toe. AP speaks because the master pulled its chain.
Seriously, if I wasn't supposed to care for one, why would I care for the other?
as for Whoppie and her getting dumped from slim-fast... I don't recall the libs screaming when the boy scouts were having their funding attacked.
ahhhh, the Boy Scouts. Of course not, that group builds character and responsibility. AND they won't allow squirrely leaders who might actually develop crushes on their charges.
Joe Wilson has been documented as the liar we knew he was. The Senate Committee report released last week listed evidence that demonstrates his wife did indeed recommend him for his trip to Niger, contrary to his assertions. She even wrote a memo about it---which begs the question if a CIA covert agent would be doing such a thing. Which buttresses the contention I've held for months: That the grand jury is not wasting their time on the non-issue of who leaked her "name".
I think they crossed the line back with that "wedding party" story and haven't looked back.
Long after ample documentation was produced proving we had not bombed a "wedding party", the AP's Sheherezade Faramouzi was still writing articles disputing that. It was out and out anti-American propaganda.
WHy do they need to bother digging for little nuggets of "truth" when they've already shown they're perfectly willing to lie to discredit Bush?
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Except with Clinton real things WERE exposed from his past that should have been considered by voters.
With the Bush story, the media is chasing a lie: The idea that he was AWOL.
They never give up do they? Disgusting!
I keep calling AP and they keep hanging up on me.
touchy people.
In '68 right before he ordered John Kerry to go out and shoot up Cambodia!
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