Just. Dept. Rebuffs Request for Bush Guard Records - Amatuer Investigates

[Kimber Scott]

mrsuomela just posted this in LBN. Is the amatuer investigator anyone we know?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

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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In the meantime, amateur researchers are combing the public records as well, and their findings are burning up certain corners of the blogosphere. Philadelphia caterer Paul Lukasiak, for instance, believes he has unraveled the story of Bush's attempt to transfer himself to Alabama, and can prove that Bush never made up his missed training days.

http://tinyurl.com/6v7qz

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. How nice of Bush admin to filter things for us!

This comes from the Ministry of Truth, right?

[Pirate Smile]

2. That WP link said it is no longer available.

[fishface]

3. WTF does the justice dept have to do with a records

request for Texas archives??

[Ganja Ninja]

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

Yeah we've see how republicans do an audit before, with a shredder!

[NV1962]

5. Corrected link to WaPo article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38452-2004Aug27.html

[Kimber Scott]

6. The link is too long, so I made a tiny URL in the original post.

Thanks for trying.

[Malva Zebrina]

7. Paul Lukasiak is a poster on the Salon White House forums

and aliong with Marty Heldt have broken the story. They both have been on it for years already.

Some recent writing of Lukasiak is here as well as some interesting comments on Walt Starr's work. Poster there says not small arms ribbon.

http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx?50@144.1azaalOEiuV.1@.7739b7ad