Anyone with Nexis access who can check AWOL coverage in 2000?

[grasswire]

Specifically, we want to know if the Wall Street Journal EVER mentioned George W. Bush's absence from his military duties at the Texas National Guard.

The WSJ's political reporter, Jeane Cummings, stated on Washington Journal Friday morning that the AWOL matter had been "covered" by the press in the presidential campaign of 2000.

It would be useful and sweet to check her own newspaper's coverage. I hope someone with Nexis access can do this.

[TMorrow931]

1. "Anyone with Nexis access who can check AWOL coverage in 2000?"

I know this is off topic, but can anyone with Nexis find out who it was that said OBL and Al-Qeida was a "non-issue" during the Clinton Admin?

I kow I've seen it before, but I cannot find the news article. I'm pretty sure it was a Senator, but it could have been a Congressman.

Thanks!

[DjTj]

2. So I searched Nexis...

...and there's plenty of coverage of Bush's national guard service in various newspapers. The Boston Globe was the most aggressive, and here is an excerpt:

May 23, 2000 Boston Globe: "1-YEAR GAP IN BUSH'S GUARD DUTY NO RECORD OF AIRMAN AT DRILLS IN 1972-73"

The ease of Bush's entry into the Air Guard was widely reported last year. At a time when such billets were coveted and his father was a Houston congressman, Bush vaulted to the top of a waiting list of 500. Bush and his father have denied that he received any preferential treatment. But last year, Ben Barnes, who was speaker of the Texas House in 1968, said in a sworn deposition in a civil lawsuit that he called Guard officials seeking a Guard slot for Bush after a friend of Bush's father asked him to do so.

But Lloyd said it is possible that since Bush had his sights set on discharge and the unit was beginning to replace the F-102s, Bush's superiors told him he was not "in the flow chart. Maybe George Bush took that as a signal and said, 'Hell, I'm not going to bother going to drills.'

I tried a lot of different searches with the Wall Street Journal, and found only one article on August 2, "WAR HEROES: EVERYWHERE BUT THE TICKET" that simply mentions that neither Bush nor Cheney served in the military. The next week, on August 11, a letter was published responding to that article where the writer "insists Bush was probably in more danger every time he piloted Air National Guard jet than Gore was during his service in Vietnam."

So, my conclusions after a few minutes of research are that although it was covered in the press, the WSJ didn't make much mention of it at all.

[grasswire]

3. thank you SOOO much

I think that's enough to spank her with. I'll challenge her to produce any other coverage.