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[cami715]

1. You might want to investigate this.

5 plus years ago:

Newsweek reported on July 9, 2000 that the Bush campaign "launched a secretive research operation designed to scour all records relating to his Vietnam-era service" during preparation for Bush's 1998 re-election campaign. They paid "hard-nosed Dallas lawyer named Harriet Miers" $19,000 to review the records. According to Newsweek, one result of her work was to deflect charges that former Texas House Speaker Ben Barnes helped Bush get into the Texas Air National Guard despite low qualifications and a long waiting list. Barnes was later forced to testify under oath that he helped Bush.

The same Newsweek article also discusses the absence of evidence that Bush fulfilled his orders to report for duty in Alabama in the fall of 1972. According to the article, "Dan Bartlett conceded that the records 'were either lost or misplaced... we are not sure.'" If Burkett's charges are true, Bartlett may have had a hand in losing or misplacing these records.

Cached from Democrats.org

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2. IMO we should encourage people who post this sort

of info to pass it on to Moveon

[rainbow4321]

3. Info on her old law firm

This may not be what anyone is looking for but I found this blog w/ an old Houston Chronicle article:



http://www.gregsopinion.com/archives/006491.html


Locke, Liddell and Sapp is one of Texas' premier law firms, having represented some of the state's top corporations and individulas, including George W. Bush when he was governor and general partner of the Texas Rangers baseball team.

But it is two other former clients, convicted swindlers Russell Erxleben and Brian Stearns, who have brought unwanted attention to the 426-laywer firm with offices in Houston and several other cities. In the past two years, Locke Liddell has paid $30.5 million to settle lawsuits filed by investors who plowed money into enterprises run by Erxleben and Stearns, both of Austin. The deals turned out to be nothing more than elaborate Ponzi schemes.

Stearns continually told investors that his law firm was the same one that represented Gov. Bush, according to court documents. Harriet Miers, who was co-managing partner of Lock Liddell, represented Bush. She left the law firm in January to become an assistant to President Bush. Many in the Texas legal community are asking how a reputable firm ended up with two such disreputable clients.


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The law firm offered the same explanation in April 2000 when it agreed to pay $22 million to settle a lawsuit stemming from its representation of Erxleben. Erxleben, a former star placekicker for the University of Texas and the NFL's New Orleans Saints, is serving a seven-year sentence in federal prison for stealing $36 million through his foreign currency trading company, Austin Forex International.