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02/10/2004 Archived Entry: "DoD steps in...."
DoD steps in....
Think ThugCo will try to thwart this? I wonder. This could get interesting.
The Defense Department has requested that President Bush's payroll records from his service in the National Guard be sent to Washington from a DOD archive in Colorado, to ascertain whether they can be released to news organizations and public interest groups that have formally requested them in recent days, according to DOD officials.Bush, in an interview shown Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," said he would release all his records, including pay stubs, to put to rest political suggestions that he may not have fulfilled his duty near the end of his Guard service, from May 1972 to May 1973. The president also suggested there might not be anything in the records that has not already been in the public domain.
"I mean, people have been looking for these files for a long period of time, trust me, and starting in the 1994 campaign for [Texas] governor," Bush said. "And I can assure you in the year 2000 people were looking for those files as well."
Asked in the interview whether he would authorize release of his Guard records, the president said, "Yes, absolutely."
Bush enlisted in the Texas Air National Guard in 1968, two weeks before graduating from Yale and at the height of the Vietnam War.
At issue is a 12-month period, commencing in May 1972, when Bush moved to Alabama to work on a senatorial campaign. He received permission to transfer to an Alabama unit and was instructed to report to duty there. There is no definitive evidence in his file that he reported to the Alabama unit to perform drills; Bush has said he did report and perform drills.
Bush's personnel records also are vague on what he did in the Texas Guard after returning to Houston after the Senate election he worked on. The first date in the records for 1973 is May 29, when they indicate he attended drills. The records show he attended drills at least 18 times between May 29 and July 30.
The plot thickens.
Replies: 3 people speak up
Bush: "People have been looking FOR the records". He does not say they have been looking through/at the records.... intentional statement or another incoherent blundering misstatement?
Posted by Lily @ 02/10/2004 12:21 AM NY
...you decide.
Posted by Joni @ 02/10/2004 12:55 AM NY
"to ascertain whether they can be released to news organizations and public interest groups that have formally requested them in recent days"
I'm skeptical of this wording. Does it mean they will see that it's appropriate information or doctor it up before releasing?
Posted by Coujeaux @ 02/10/2004 09:23 AM NY
