Posted on 09/07/2004 4:46:21 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
AP: Lawsuit Gets Bush Guard Papers Out
2 minutes ago
By MATT KELLEY, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) was ranked in the middle of his Air National Guard class and flew more than 336 hours in a fighter jet before letting his pilot status lapse and missing a key readiness drill, according to his flight records belatedly uncovered Tuesday under the Freedom of Information Act.
The Pentagon (news - web sites) and Bush's campaign have claimed for months that all records detailing his fighter pilot career have been made public, but defense officials said they found two dozen new records detailing his training and flight logs after The Associated Press filed a lawsuit and crafted new requests under the public records law.
"Previous requests from other requesters for President Bush's Individual Flight Records did not lead to the discovery of these records because at the time President Bush left the service, flight records were subject to retention for only 24 months and we understood that neither the Air Force nor the Texas Air National Guard retained such records thereafter," the Pentagon told the AP.
"Out of an abundance of caution," the government "searched a file that had been preserved in spite of this policy" and found the Bush records, the letter said. "The Department of Defense (news - web sites) regrets this oversight during the previous search efforts."
The records show Bush, a lieutenant in the Texas Air National Guard, was ranked No. 22 in a class of 53 pilots when he finished his flight training at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia in 1969.
Over the next three years, he logged 326.4 hours as a pilot and an additional 9.9 hours as a co-pilot, mostly in his the F-102a jet used to intercept
(Excerpt) Read more at story.news.yahoo.com ...
Actually, everyone who flew these and safely landed more than a few times was probably a great pilot. Not being one of the best does not mean you were not great. Pilots who were not even good did not make it through flight school, were removed from flying status or crashed soon thereafter.
Is this the same Associated Press that published that lying propaganda that George Bush's rally audience "booed" when GW said Bill Clinton was going to have to undergo major heart bypass surgery and then corrected it and pulled AP writer Hays from the AP byline?
AP had refused to release Hays name as the lying lib scumbag working for John "V" Kerry!
AP has confessed that their original article was untrue and therefore biased and had to be corrected.
Can we ever believe the AP again?
Why should we?
http://pr.lookingat.us/BushAP.mp3
I wonder if AP reporter Mr. Hays has bothered to comply with registering under Meagan's Law yet?
Howard Dean told me "It's out there" that a Mr. Hays is allegedly a convicted child sex offender, but Howard said he was not 100% sure himself this is the same Mr. Hays.
I'd like to see all pertinent official records and documents on "Mr. Hays" to clear this up now.
I SENT E-MAILS TO AP.
I'M SICK OF THIS KINDA CRAP.
This proves that Bush is Hitler.
reminds me of the title of a Shakespeare Play.. Much Ado About Nothing..
On the same note, Kerry reminds me of a Shakespeare quote.. Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing!
If I've said it before, I will say it over and over and over again: CFR not only handcuffed the first amendment, but it also makes the MSM the most powerful 527 out there, because they will go UNCHALLENGED by anyone. This is precisely why every single one of us needs to urge the President to leave the 527s alone. Without 527s, the MSM will dominate and dictate- that's right, dictate- political thought throughout America.
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For all we know the Russians could have planned this, or maybe AP got the National Guard records hidden somewhere else.... or its all Bush's fault.
I read an AP story that was headlined
"Over 150 Russian Children killed since George Bush declared an end to hostilities on May 1st.". < /sarcasm >
Another quote from the Bard that could apply to Lurch's supporters: "Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
Just finished reading the article,AP lawsuit gets Bush Guard papers out.What a great article.You have shown that the President did fulfill his Guard service.I am so glad you researched this Guard story for as long as you did.Everybody else had given up,but you stayed with this story for month and months and months,and put aside all other stories to pursue this. Without your help in keeping this in the forefront,readers would not know how truthful this President has been.I look forward to the article you have coming out on Senator Kerrys signing his 180 form.I know you will put in as much effort getting out the untold military information on John Kerry, as you did the President.Once again thank you for confirming what I already knew about our President.You must be as proud of him as I am.
oh - forget about it.....
Re: #75
No, because he, unlike Bush, hasen't signed SF-180.
Yep JOHN EDWARDS MILITARY RECORDS!!!
I'm sure he's got lots of war wounds in the bar after all those hearings!!!
LOL!!!
I bet the AP has never attempted to access Civil War pension records. I've had cases where the National Archives could not find specific records I'd requested, only to find that they were still in the hands of the VA. Why pension records over 60 years old are still in old files of the VA is beyond me. Yet they are. In order to gain access to these records, I've had to write the VA, filling out a special form for these records and wait until the VA has gotten back to me that they've located the records. Sometimes even the VA can't locate the record, which means it's permanently lost or misfiled. In some cases, I've ended up having to write my Congressman in an attempt to cut through the bureaucratic red tape to get copies of these records. So if these media groups think they've had a hard time getting a glimpse of Bush's Air National Guard records, they ought to try doing research on Civil War soldiers. They'd tear their hair out.
This proves that President Bush flew his F 102a a very long way. At 600 mph over 335 hours he could have flown that plane around the world about eight times. With afterburners, he could have completed a few more laps.
As someone who has been trying to get her great-grandfather's Civil War pension records off and on for 10 years, I know how right you are.
send that to Karl Rove!
But I guess I should have wrote:
RELEASE JOHN EDWARDS' MILITARY RECORDS!!!
Me grammer no good.
written.
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