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[DemoTex]

Retired National Guard Lt. Col. Bill Burkett said Tuesday that in 1997, then-Gov. 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."

Mr. Burkett said that a few days later at Camp Mabry in Austin, he saw Mr. Bush's file and documents from it discarded in a trash can. He said he recognized the documents as retirement point summaries and pay forms.

Bush aides denied any destruction of records or any order directing that any information in Mr. Bush's personnel file be destroyed. "The charges are just flat-out not true," said Dan Bartlett, White House communications director. (More ...)

http://www.dallasnews.com/s/nationworld/washington/021004cccapolguard.a88bb4a.html

According to this Dallas Morning News article, Col. Burkett's accusations are reported in detail in James Moore's new book, Bush's War for Re-Election, which will be out in March. Looks like Bu$h really has been "born again." Like the Phoenix, up from the ashes of his burned and shredded paper trail. Luckie Duckie.