Have you guys heard? AP is suing for access to *'s TANG records

[CatWoman]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x639139

[NewYorkerfromMass]

1. It's pretty cool. Like Christmas in June. nt

[Bluebear]

2. "I did never have any fake orange drink with my vodka"

[hlthe2b]

3. Well, that should excite them in "freeper land!"

:evilgrin:

[Cat Atomic]

4. The establishment's really taking Bush down.

Guess he's bad for bidness.

[sam sarrha]

5. didnt he offer all to see "All the documents".. or was that anotner LIE

[jpgray]

6. It was one of those 'you can look, but you can't copy' bullshit sessions

Exactly what they are trying to pull in Florida over the felon rolls.

[graham67]

12. That was a lie....

The administration offered to show all of his records and only released a few. They still want copies of his pay records among other things

[Tatiana]

7. Hey Hey Hey

So many scandals... so little time (before the election).

BRING 'EM ON!

[salin]

8. Wasn't CNN also suing * for records

can't remember - but was it about the purged voters in florida? Wonder where that gem sits...

[peacetalksforall]

9. Allbaugh and Bartlet were supposed to have cleansed the records.

Will the lawsuit point to them?

Funny thought...can you imagine the scene when the right wing cabal selected him (the first selection)? They probably had to sit him down and ask him to make a list of every law he broke and every embarassing act so that they could go out and clean it up - like finding the photographs of him dancing nude on the table top with his boots on - as inferred in a bit piece on the Drudge Report. The funnier part is having a drugged and drunk and privileged playboy past and having to remember everything. His family probably helped out.

[TexasSissy]

10. Great! (But I'll eat my hat if they get 'em)

[graham67]

11. Why now?

There's been no news about this since, what, January?, when Michael Moore was campaigning with Clark? That's the last time I remember any news organizations even mentioning that he might have been AWOL.

[Viking12]

13. Because the WH* has been unresponsive to requests (no surprise)

"The White House has yet to respond to a request by the AP in April asking the president to sign a written waiver of his right to keep records of his military service confidential. Bush gave an oral waiver in a TV appearance that preceded the White House's release this year of materials concerning his National Guard service.


The government "did not expedite their response ... they did not produce the file within the time required by law, and they will not now estimate when the file might be produced or even confirm that an effort has been initiated to retrieve a copy from the microfilm at the Texas archives," the lawsuit says"


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040622/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_national_guard

[Stephanie]

14. Excerpt from the article:

Tuesday, June 22, 2004 · Last updated 2:18 p.m. PT

AP sues for access to Bush Guard records

By PETE YOST
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER



WASHINGTON -- The Associated Press sued the Pentagon and the Air Force on Tuesday, seeking access to all records of George W. Bush's military service during the Vietnam War.

Filed in federal court in New York, where The AP is headquartered, the lawsuit seeks access to a copy of Bush's microfilmed personnel file from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission in Austin.

The White House says the government has already released all the records of Bush's military service.

Controversy surrounds Bush's time in the Texas Air National Guard because it is unclear from the record what duties he performed for the military when he was working on the political campaign of a U.S. Senate candidate in Alabama.
(snip/...)

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category...

EXCELLENT!

[dusty64]

15. I wonder what their

motives could possibly be as they seem to be desperately propping our regime up while blatantly trying to tear Kerry down. I find it hard to get my hopes up.

[sendero]

16. Color me pessimistic....

... the real records were destroyed long ago.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

17. He was an astronaut now too? Geez what didn't he do

I know - corny joke :)

[molly]

18. Just heard it on C-Span

"some conspiracy therories never die". Nope.

[Cheswick2.0]

19. That's great, where were they in 2000?

Just call me frustrated.