Justice Dept. Rebuffs Press Request for More Bush Guard Records

[Flint-oid]

The Justice Department has told the Associated Press that the government does not possess any records that would shed further light on the mysteries of President Bush's Vietnam-era National Guard service, beyond those that have already been made public, a lawyer for the news agency said yesterday.

The Associated Press filed a lawsuit two months ago, demanding access to a microfilm copy of President Bush's entire Texas Air National Guard personnel record from an archive in Austin.
Lawyers and reporters for the AP are currently engaged in an exhaustive examination of the material that has been made public, making a list of key documents that are missing but that should be on the microfilm.

"We believe that we have identified some missing pieces," said AP general counsel Dave Tomlin. "Whether they're missing because they've disappeared from the file or because nobody ever generated them, we don't know. We're doing a sort of audit of them."

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[CO Liberal]

1. Please Edit Your Post

The rule here at DU is that only four paragraphs can be posted, along with a link to the entire article. Otherwise, it's a violation of copyright law.

BTW, welcome to DU!! :hi:

[Flint-oid]

3. Thanks

[wryter2000]

4. Another welcome

:hi:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. Everything the press needs to know...

Can be found by googling "Paul Lukasiak".

[Nevernose]

8. www.glcq.com -- thanks for the tip

http://www.glcq.com/

[Renew Deal]

5. Someone should send them Walt Starr's work.

[daleo]

6. Maybe the Swift Boat boys can dig up someone to lie

They can claim they served on a secret mission with Bush, to locate and kill Colonel Kurtz, somewhere in Cambodia.

[SpiralHawk]

7. OK, here it comes: The Backlash

AP is definitely going to do a big BUSH AWOL summary story between now and the election, based on the way this is sorting out.

USA Today did a great AWOlk ? story this week, saying Big Questions still remain.

Micahel Moore has just written a Screamingly Funny e-column about Bush and Kerry's Military records -- and that is going to go far and wide. Further, he will be writing a weekly column for USA Today -- that also will get broadcast around the net, as well as seeing print.

Payback is beginning. Payback is a bitch. But as all Bible students know, "you reap what you sow."

[Magleetis]

9. I hope you're right

I am so tired of hearing negative stories about Kerry's Vietnam record while Bush* didn't even have the courage to serve. Bush's'* lack of service is the real story. I hope it comes out in spades.

[leesa]

11. I so hope you are right SpiralHawk. You would think the press would

tire of being used as toilet paper by these thugs.

[Flint-oid]

15. Major Media Story soon??

Last month, www.rawstory.com was promising one of the 5 major US papers would be running a story demonstrating that the recently released payroll records prove bush was AWOL. I'm still waiting, and still checking their site.

[Purrfessor]

10. Don't ya know,John Kerry authored all Guard records critical of Bush

n/t

[leetrisck]

12. They want Kerry to prove which bullet him

in Vietnam - and they can't the criminal in the White House that exposed Valerie Plame

[jayfish]

13. Hey Asscrack...

why don't you release the records and let the people decide if they "would shed further light on the mysteries of President Bush's Vietnam-era National Guard service". I didn't know that was such a novel idea in a free and open society.

Jay

[74dodgedart]

14. Bush, Sign the 108

..as the Swifties say

[democrat_patriot]

16. Shrub's military record is SHADOWY!

Let's see 'em tough guy.

[Karenina]

17. It sure is SHADOWY!!!!

SHADOWY *Military Records. How about a major *media poll that asks Vets
CAN YOU PRODUCE YOUR MILITARY RECORDS??? Simple yes/no

[Kierkegaard]

18. "...We're doing a sort of audit of them

and we'll get right back to you, once the election is over."

This is ludicrous. If the government thought for a second any one of us had anything to hide, or there were any questions about our background, they could probably unearth more stuff about us than we could ever begin to remember. I suppose when it's the president of the United-freakin-States, it's much harder to keep track of all those little details, eh?

[Jackpine Radical]

19. Waal shuckins, yawl. Ah know whur thet pesky DD214 is.

It's whurivver Shrub's ol' Texas driver's license records are. Find one an ya find tha other.

[barb162]

20. doesn't the TX National Guard keep a duplicate file????

does anyone know this?

[proud2BlibKansan]

24. It's in Bush's library

in Texas. May as well be lost.

[democrat_patriot]

21. Afternoon kick.

[jdj]

22. "We're doing a sort of audit of them."

No worries dude. It's not like it's the president or anything.

[proud2BlibKansan]

23. What is a

sort of audit?

[struggle4progress]

25. kick for the big sucking vacuum that is our President's history

:kick: