For reference:
Documents obtained by the CBS News program "60 Minutes" shed new light on one of the most controversial episodes in Bush's military service, when he abruptly stopped flying and moved from Texas to Alabama to work on a political campaign. The documents include a memo from Bush's squadron commander, Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian, ordering Bush "to be suspended from flight status for failure to perform" to U.S. Air Force and National Guard standards and failure to take his annual physical "as ordered."
The new documents surfaced as the Bush administration released for the first time the president's personal flight logs, which have been the focus of repeated archival searches and Freedom of Information Act requests dating to the 2000 presidential campaign. The logs show that Bush stopped flying in April 1972 after accumulating more than 570 hours of flight time between 1969 and 1972, much of it on an F-102 interceptor jet.
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A spokeswoman for "60 Minutes," Kelli Edwards, declined to say exactly how the new documents were obtained other than that CBS News understood they had been taken from Killian's "personal office file." In addition to the order to Bush to report for a physical, the documents include various memos from Killian describing his conversations with Bush and other National Guard officers about Bush's attempts to secure a transfer to Alabama. Killian died in 1984.
From the Wash Post this morning.
Do you know if the White House commented on any of this yet today?
I see the malignant leftists are ignoring the Swift Boat vets and the fact that some of Kerry's medals and stories aren't legitimate.
Old Media is just so darned tired.
Even if the docs were "genuine", the fact that they were not a part of the TANG official file suggests they are meaningless as to whether W "did his duty".
The other interesting point is the memo alleges pressure from a specific named individual (Staudt) - who has denied applying such pressure.
Conveniently for the media, the people allegedly making the allegations are dead.
>>Was Rather Duped by Anti-Bush Hoax?
No. Dan Rather is a hard-core communist who hates freedom and capitalism. He knows exactly what he is doing.