Judge Orders U.S. to Find Bush Records

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Fri, 09-17-2004 - 1:37am

Ok, I posted something on Kerry, now I will post something on Bush.  What do you all think?  Do you think it is a good idea for a judge to order this so we can finally put this darn issue to rest, do you think this is bogus, do you not care, or what?  Let me know!


http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&u=/ap/20040916/ap_on_el_pr/bush_guard_records_1&printer=1


WASHINGTON - A federal judge has ordered the Pentagon (news - web sites) to find and make public by next week any unreleased files about President Bush (news - web sites)'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 (news - web sites) 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.


White House officials have said Bush ordered the Pentagon earlier this year to conduct a thorough search for the president's records, and officials allowed reporters to review everything that was gathered back in February.


Through a series of requests under the federal open records law and a subsequent suit, the AP uncovered the flight logs, which were not part of the records the White House released earlier this year.


Both Bush's and John Kerry (news - web sites)'s service records in Vietnam have become a major issue in the presidential race. New records that have surfaced in recent weeks have raised more questions.


Bush's critics say Bush got preferential treatment as the son of a congressman and U.N. ambassador. Critics also question why Bush skipped a required medical examination in 1972 and failed to show up for drills during a six-month period that year.


Bush has repeatedly said he fulfilled all of his Air National Guard obligations.


The future president joined the Texas Air National Guard in 1968, when he graduated from Yale. He spent more than a year on active duty learning how to fly and then mostly flew in the one-seat F-102A fighters until April 1972.


The pilot logs show a shift to flights in two-seat trainer jets in March 1972, shortly before Bush quit flying. Former Air National Guard officials say that could have been because F-102A jets were not available for Bush to fly or because of other reasons, such as concerns about Bush's flight performance.


Bush skipped his required yearly medical exam in 1972 in the months after he stopped flying in April. Bush has said he moved to Alabama to work on the unsuccessful Senate campaign of a family friend.


Bush never showed up for Guard service between late April and mid-October 1972. He won approval to train with an Alabama Air National Guard unit during September, October and November 1972, but more than a dozen members of the unit at that time say they never saw him there.


The only direct record of Bush appearing at the Alabama unit's base is a January 1973 dental exam performed at that base. Bush's Texas commanders wrote in May 1973 they never saw him between May 1972 and April 1973, a time when his pay records show he trained on 14 days.


Although military regulations allowed commanders to order two years of active duty for guardsmen who missed more than three straight months of drills, that never happened to Bush. Commanders had leeway at the time to allow guardsmen to make up for missed drills.



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I was watching some type of newsprogram last night and actually saw about that and so I'm now more glued in to what was happening and stuff. I feel bad for the mother. :( XOXO.
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Sat, 09-18-2004 - 4:08am
My mom has some magazine (I think newsweek or something like it) that features 9/11 in it so she said she's going to give it to me and I plan on buying some DVD's on it and some other documentary films. I've been getting into them lately. :) Last night I watched "Bowling for Columbine" and liked it pretty well. It was interesting. Too bad he couldn't do one where he talks to people in Canada about what's going on here. I always like to hear what other people have to say about news going on here and get an outside view like he did with Columbine. One thing I found interesting was how he went to that one suburb after talking to the man and woman about not locking their doors and he went to test what they said and sure enough nobody did and they were really nice to him and everything. He apologized for intruding and said he thought it was strange since he has three locks on his door. The neighborhood I live in doesn't ever have any problems but we still lock all the doors in our house whether it's the basement, front door, or a back garage door. And the people he was talking to about their locks even said they had some stuff stolen. I'm not sure about the woman but it didn't faze her and the man said all they stole was some liquor and cig's and he still kept his door unlocked. According to the people he was interviewing they don't show killings etc. on the news like here and it's not on every news network. They have the same movies, tv programs, video games etc. so it's not that and he also talked to a chief of police or somebody like that and he said they had maybe one murder in around three yrs or so. I thought it was interesting how everybody but us has a pretty low murder/killing rate. Has anybody else seen this movie? XOXO.

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