[kcvl]

Bill Burkett, the former National Guardsman who was recently quoted in the Dallas Morning News saying that then-Governor Bush's chief of staff, Joe Allbaugh, told the National Guard chief to get the Bush file and make certain "there's not anything there that will embarrass the governor." Burkett provides a lot of background information to bolster his claim

Dan Bartlett and Danny James came to him at Camp Mabry in 1993, right after Bush was inaugurated as Governor, and deleted portions of Bush's TANG file. I asked Gough what he believed was scrubbed? 'I think quite a bit. I think all his time in Alabama.'".

Burkett says Conn was fired from the Guard the same day, presumably for advising him to threaten the governor's office with information about the missing files.

he explained his "clarification" in 2000 that, as he puts it, seemed to "over-retract": basically, he got scared by the attention and backed down. He now admits it was a mistake.

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The first (partial) corroboration is from George Conn. According to the New York Times, he declined specific comment on the charges but said via email, "I know LTC Bill Burkett and served with him several years ago in the Texas Army National Guard. I believe him to be honest and forthright. He 'calls things like he sees them.'"

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Jim Moore, a longtime Texas reporter (and, granted, hardly a fan of Bush), has talked with Burkett extensively for a soon to be published book titled Bush's War For Reelection: Iraq, the White House, and the People.

[Miss Marple]

I have to drop out...I am just too tired...no doubt from all the darn waiting we wwent through today!

I will check in as soon as my cat gets me up...probably about 4:00AM.

[valleygal]

I wonder if Burkett had help from Glenn Smith and the "Texans for Truth".

[stratman1969]

These people can't get their facts straight. First of all, Bush was inaugurated as Governor of Texas in 1995 NOT 1993. He defeated Ma Richards in Nov. 1994. I remember this because I lived in Texas at the time. Are these people such idiots they can't go to the internet to look this up. Oh yeah, I forgot, they thought Microsoft Word existed in 1972.

[jbstrick]

James Moore, (915) 673-xxxx, 1742 S 6th St, Abilene, TX 79602