Retired Guard Officer Says He Saw Some Files Discarded in Trash

Dallas Morning News ^ | February 11, 2003 | wire report

[fritzz]

As I understand it, the President was on temporary assignment to Alabama, and then returned to Houston. This would be the reason the Houston superior could not evaluate.

[Darlin']

Oh, yeah, right. You certainly wouldn't want to hand over records like that to the person who asked for them and you wouldn't shred them. Naw, you'd just toss them in a trash can where any danged fool could find them. Burkett just moved to the top of my Dumbest Democrat list for today and I don't think he is in any danger of being replaced. . FOFLOL.

[mtbopfuyn]

Col. Burkett, who has voted in both GOP and Democratic primaries in the past, said he was disturbed over how the Bush file was handled. He initially made his assertions on a Web site two years ago, and they are reported in detail in a forthcoming book, Bush's War for Re-Election, by James Moore.

Ah, so, there is a book due out. But isn't there always. Yawn.

According to Col. Burkett, he was at headquarters in the summer 1997 when he heard the conversation between Gen. James and Mr. Allbaugh. He said the Guard commander had the conversation about eliminating "embarrassments" on a speakerphone.

Nosey little bugger, ain't he? Strange, Gen. James and Mr. Allbaugh didn't think it was of such top secret, clandestine, or illegal acts but had it on the speakerphone rather than behind closed doors.

About 10 days later, he said, he saw Texas Gen. John Scribner going through the Bush file. "I looked down and saw files on the table and of that sort of stuff, and in the wastecan there is a retirement points document that has the name Bush, George W. lLt on it," he said. "There were both originals and Xerox copies in the stack."

Danged, he's certainly Johnny on the Spot. He was listening in during the phone call from the Gov.'s office, and now here he is again with the open and trashed file. Again, we have a General, Gen. Scribner this time, who's not worried about a cover-up and is going through the file out in the open.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone did go through the file when Papa Bush went up the political ranks and again when W became Gov., however the bottom line is that Bush was HONORABLY discharged. He was basically a nobody 30 freakin' years ago so there would have been no need to forge his records.

[mtbopfuyn]

... he was unable to obtain a medical diagnosis or military medical care for his debilitating illness... By the time he received military health care, the disease had ravaged his body, and left him disabled and unable to return to either military duty or gainful civilian employment... case dismissed.

Good grief, as if Abilene and the surrounding area doesn't have a dozen hospitals he could have gone to before his body was so ravaged. What a poopy-head.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Sorry you couldn't stay. I really like talking to stupid people. Did you know that John Kerry chased down a retreating and wounded VC and finished him off? He got a Silver Star for that. Of course like you I have no proof but it sounds right.

CG

[NYCVirago]

This guy sounds like a real loose cannon.

[Krodg]

I understand it too....now how do we get McAuliffe to understand?

"We also still do not know why the president's superiors filed a report saying they were unable to evaluate his performance for that year because he had not been present to be evaluated."

Somebody please tell this dummy they couldn't evaluate him because they were in Texas and he was in Alabama!!! Sheesh...

[colorado tanker]

What a poopy-head.

LOL! Yep.

Plus, look at the timing of this. Bush's service record was questioned in both his gubernatorial campaigns. If they were going to sterilize a file, why would they wait until 1997? And why would the records of a unit based in Houston be kept in Austin?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

This wouldn't even be admissable in court, and they are trying to make it a story?

Why would you think that something has to be admissable in court before a newspaper will print it?

What, do you think that reporters are under oath subject to penalty for perjury?? Don't you know that they are protected by the First Amendment?

[mrsmith]

"This must be the best Terry Mac can do."

And he still hasn't come up with anything better.

[RJL]

Retired National Guard Lt. Col. Bill Burkett said Tuesday that in 1997, then Governor Bush's chief of staff Joe Allbaugh told the National Guard chief to get the Bush file and make certain that 'there is not anything in there that will embarass the governor.'

Col. Burkett said that a few days later at Camp Mabry in Austin, he saw Mr. Bush's file and documents from it discarded in a trash can.

I'm not 007, but if I were given orders to steal and "clean up" files, I would not put the files I just stole in the trash can in the same office I just stole them from.

[mrsmith]

"... And third, "a few days later" he saw the illegally-discarded files in a trash can, and didn't save them?!?!?! "

Perhaps that is just what he claimed to CBS that he did when he gave them the forged files.
In their minds they'd be protecting him from charges of stealing documents by not revealing him as the source.