Posted on 10/15/2004 2:43:15 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Independent Review Finds Bush Records Texas National Guard Officials Missed By Matt Kelley Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Weeks after Texas National Guard officials signed an oath swearing they had turned over all of President Bush's military records, independent examiners found more than two dozen pages of previously unreleased documents about Bush. The two retired Army lawyers went through Texas files under an agreement between the Texas Guard and The Associated Press, which sued to gain access to the files. The 31 pages of documents turned over to AP Thursday night include orders for high-altitude training in 1972, less than three months before Bush abruptly quit flying as a fighter pilot.
The discovery is the latest in a series of embarrassments for Pentagon and Texas National Guard officials who have repeatedly said they found and released all of Bush's Vietnam-era military files, only to belatedly discover more records. Those discoveries - nearly 100 pages, including Bush's pay records and flight logs - have been the result of freedom of information lawsuits filed in federal and Texas courts by AP.
A Texas National Guard spokesman defended the continuing discoveries, saying Guard officials didn't find all of Bush's records because they are disorganized and in poor shape.
"These boxes are full of dirt and rat (excrement) and dead bugs. They have never been sitting in an uncontrolled climate," said Lt. Col. John Stanford. "It's a tough task to go through archives that were not set up in a way that you could easily go through them."
(Excerpt) Read more at ap.tbo.com ...
AP spun it as bad as possible for Bush, but still couldn't get much into it.
If they can't dig more dirt on Bush's NG service, they are going to have to try a few more Abu Ghraib photos in the next two weeks.
I think the Wash. Post tried, but if he doesn't sign the 180, I don't think they can get them.
When Nixon was President.
Must have the right stuff.
Yes. The Washington Post, of all people, filed an FOIA request for Kerry's records as part of their reporting on the Swift Boat Vets for Truth controversy.
In the article, they reported that a.) there were over 100 pages of records on Kerry, but b.) only six pages could be released in the absence of Kerry signing an SF-180.
And there the matter stands. Apparently, the Post and their cohorts are afraid of what the other ninety-or-so pages might tell them...
Kerry's Mil. record==LETTERS OF REPRIMAND
Master Chief ret. Larry Gehlkin | 10/15/04 | greg mcclure
Posted on 10/15/2004 2:40:06 PM PDT by wildcatf4f3
Forget the discharge, what Kerry is hiding are the letters of reprimand.
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Speaking with my friend Larry, 27 years U.S. Navy, Master Chief, The focus on the discharge is a red herring. Officers being granted gentlemens rights, they are usually asked to resign their commissions. Their discharges may be uprated with time BUT any letters of reprimand are PERMANENT! It is these letters of reprimand that he does not want any one to see. Considering his behavior after his return from Viet Nam, one can only guess at how scathing they are. SIGN the 180 form.
That's not the only Rat excrement in this story.
I have a vision of Mapes swating flys and cockraches and Rather squeezing the s**t out of little white mice.
Too funny!
DING DING DING -- irrefutable proof that the RATHER docs were forgeries. Everyone knows they were, but this proves it. How could Bush be ordered to training if his flight status was taken away for disobeying orders. HuH HUH HUH?? Hello Lefties??? What is the silenece I hear.
Sort of like the CBS documnents.
If any paragraph in those 31 pages were unfavorable to Bush it would lead every national newscast this very night.
must be nothing in them since AP's headline is to infer a coverup Rather than an allegation about his service.
Why can't they do the same for kerry's records?
I'm noticing a direct correlation between when items about Kerry's military record are brought up, something new about Bush's records appear magically.
It only goes to further collaborate that Kerry is trying to hide something by trying to change the subject.
Duh.
I'm sure Kerry will now permit some GOP lawyers to crawl through his military records to see if (by chance) all his records haven't been released.
< /holding breath >
And yet the buggy whip media denies being biased.
The AntiChrist will portray himself as the Saviour too.
We already know they LIE, why should they be honest about their bias?
This is yet another lie; evidently the AP believes statements don't count unless THEY find them.
The ONLY reason the AP can sue under FOIA is because Bugh signed the 180 to release any and all documents concerning his service.
Kerry won't do that.
Don't you wish they'd applied similar effort to finding the Rose Law Firm billing records? Or authenticating Vince Foster's "suicide" note and paramedic photos? Or Ron Brown's autopsy files?
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