Bush was particularly worried about mentions in the records of his arrests

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-02-11-bush-guard-usat_x.htm

<snip>A second former Texas Guard official, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, was told by a participant that commanders and Bush advisers were particularly worried about mentions in the records of arrests of Bush before he joined the National Guard in 1968, the second official said.

Bill Burkett, then a top adviser to the state Guard commander, said he overheard conversations in which superiors discussed "cleansing" the file of damaging information.

The White House dismissed Burkett's charge Wednesday. It is an "outrageously false statement," said White House communications director Dan Bartlett, who handled the records in the late 1990s as an aide to Gov. Bush. Administration officials dismiss Burkett as a disgruntled former Guardsman who had a falling-out with his superiors.

Two forms in Bush's publicly released military files — his enlistment application and a background check — contain blacked-out entries in response to questions about arrests or convictions. Bush acknowledged in biographies published in 1999 that he was arrested twice before he enlisted in the Air National Guard: once for stealing a wreath and another time for rowdiness at a Yale-Princeton football game.

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[spotbird]

1. Watching this unfold is more fun then I thought I was allowed to

have legally.

The White House doesn't get that they can end the water torture by just getting it out of the way all at once.

[ewagner]

2. What do we know about

Burkett
Is this guy credible? Does he have skeletons in the closet?

Can he corroborate any of the things being said by Bushco*'s "eyewitness" to Dubya's service?

Caution is key here if anything is going to stick.

edited for spelling

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. Listen to him speak for yourself

The second link is to an interview with him that was broadcast on Pacifica Radio last year.

Lt. Col. Bill Burket is very credible. Last May Burkett wrote the following article for Online Journal about his experiences with Bu$hCo and Bu$h's scrubbed records. He didn't just crawl out of the woodwork, he has been very actively trying to get his story out to the world for quite awile now.


http://www.onlinejournal.com/bush/031903Burkett/031903burkett.html

What do you say?

By Bill Burkett
Online Journal Contributing Writer

March 19, 2003—I've sat in total grief for the past three years, watching the institutions of America being spent as if they were lottery winnings.

I don't want to say it, "But I told you so."

In January of 1998 and what seems like a full lifetime ago, I was stricken by a deadly case of meningoencephalitis. I was returning from a short duty trip to Panama as a team chief to inspect the hand over of Ft. Clayton to the Panamanians. I had been 'loaned' from the senior staff and state planning officer of the Texas National Guard to the Department of the Army for a series of these special projects after angering George W. Bush by refusing to falsify readiness information and reports; confronting a fraudulent funding scheme which kept 'ghost' soldiers on the books for additional funding, and refusing to alter official personnel records .

George W. Bush and his lieutenants were mad. They ordered that I not be accessed to emergency medical care services, healthcare benefits I earned by my official duty; and I was withheld from medical care for 154 days before I was withdrawn from Texas responsibility by the Department of the Army, by order of the White House.



The following link is an interview that he did with Pacifica radio last May. Scroll down to the third item to listen to Burkett's story:


http://archive.webactive.com/pacifica/peacewatch/peace20030506.html

Story: FORMER TEXAS ARMY NATIONAL GUARD LT. COL. BILL BURKETT ON BUSH THE "CHICKEN HAWK"

Today the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln returned to port in Everett, Washington after being deployed for ten months. President Bush addressed the nation regarding the end of hostilities in Iraq from the deck of the Abraham Lincoln last week. For some veterans, the sight of George W. Bush landing on the aircraft carrier was a sore point.

Although Bush's autobiography states he was a fighter pilot, his military record show that through a disciplinary action, he lost his flying privileges and never served in combat. Last week, Peace Watch spoke with 28 year Army veteran Lt. Colonel Bill Burkett who shares some little known facts about how president select Bush came to be in the Texas National Guard.

[KharmaTrain]

4. As Drudge Would Say...Developing...

I forgot about the Burkett story...if I'm not mistaken he's also tied to the funeralgate story as well.

Looks like the next shoe to drop here is "Where Was George"...since the release of the "documents" were, at best, a thin vindication and still showed the boy was a slacker or shines a brighter light on the dark holes of that time in his life.

I'd sure like to push this puppy to the questions of where he was at the time and that six months at a Houston halfway house. I remember hearing Hatfield interviewed on a local radio show in 2000 about this time, in specific, and that those records somehow were scrubbed during bunnypant's reign of terror in Texas.

[leftchick]

5. Arrests PLURAL!... before 1968!

Seems to me aWol* may have a lot more than a measly old coke arrest in his closet....

[Maine-i-acs]

6. Don't forget the OUI in Maine!

Making our Resident-in-thief a convicted felon.