Judge orders Pentagon to find, release files about Bush's service

[Nicholas_J]

Judge orders Pentagon to find, release files about President Bush's service in Air Nat'l Guard

MATT KELLEY
Associated Press Writer
Tara Morrissey, left, who works the counter at Brick House Deli, reacts as President Bush, right, buys a diet soda in Anoka, Minn., during an unscheduled stop during a campaign bus tour Thursday, Sept. 16, 2004. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
WASHINGTON — A federal judge has ordered the Pentagon to find and make public by next week any unreleased files about President Bush's Vietnam-era Air National Guard service to resolve a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by The Associated Press.

U.S. District Judge Harold Baer Jr. handed down the order late Wednesday in New York. The AP lawsuit already has led to the disclosure of previously unreleased flight logs from Bush's days piloting F-102A fighters and other jets.

Pentagon officials told Baer they plan to have their search complete by Monday. Baer ordered the Pentagon to hand over the records to the AP by Sept. 24 and provide a written statement by Sept. 29 detailing the search for more records.

"We're hopeful the Department of Defense will provide a full accounting of the steps it has taken, as the judge ordered, so the public can have some assurance that there are no documents being withheld," said AP lawyer David Schulz

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[kstewart33]

1. This is old news (though it's only been 24 hours or so)

Some docs are being released today already.