[Announce-DAN] [Fwd: [graffis-l] BUSH CAN'T RUN FOR PRESIDENT IF HE COMMITTED FEDERAL FELONY CONCERNING ALTERING MILITARY RECORDS]

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Subject: [graffis-l] BUSH CAN'T RUN FOR PRESIDENT IF HE COMMITTED
FEDERAL FELONY CONCERNING ALTERING MILITARY RECORDS
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 06:25:16 -0400 (AST)
From: "Mark Graffis" <ab758@virgin.vip.vi>
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CC: "Ian Goddard" <igoddard@erols.com>, "art b Rosenblum"
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BUSH CAN'T RUN FOR PRESIDENT IF HE COMMITTED FEDERAL FELONY CONCERNING
ALTERING MILITARY RECORDS ILLEGALLY---THE LONDON SUNDAY TIMES

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk


Air National Guard Commanding Officer Alleges Bush Military Records
Cleansing

A former senior commanding officer in the Air National Guard has come
forward to allege that the Bush campaign actually "cleansed" the Texas
Air
National Guard records in order to make them conform to the official
Bush
biography that was being written at the time of the cleansing. 

He also alleges that records which would be normally released under an
FOIA request for a serviceman’s public records were missing from
the FOIA release and asserts that those could clear up the questions
about
Bush’s military career. 

"The critical question to me is still: If GW really completed his
assigned
six-year commitment, then why has his surrogate, Dan Bartlett or senior
National Guard Officers of Texas not provided his pay files and his
complete retirement points listing (which are the only two documents
which
officially provide the detailed evidence to answer the question) to
prove
it and clear this issue from the Campaign." 

His testimony follows:

" (1) As the State Plans Officer for the Texas National Guard, I was on
full-time duty at Camp Mabry when Dan Bartlett was cleansing the George
W
Bush file prior to George W. Bush's presidential announcement. 

(2) For most soldiers at Camp Mabry, this was a generally known event. 

(3) The archives were closely scrutinized to make sure that the Bush
autobiography plans and the record did not directly contradict each
other. 

(4) In essence it was the script of the autobiography which Dan Bartlett
and his small team used to scrub a file to be released. 

(5) This effort further involved General Daniel James and Chief of Staff
William W. Goodwin at Camp Mabry. 

(6) I knew one person who worked within the records scrub who commented
to
me while at the smoke area that the Bush files really showed some
problems
with his "blue-blood service record". 

(7) If George W or anyone else can come forward to prove the case that
George W. was not AWOL then that is great for them and for the Bush
candidacy. 

(8) I furnished Mr. XXXXX XXXXXXX the name of a person in Dallas who was
the campaign supervisor for young George W. Bush during the Alabama
Senate
campaign. 

(9) That person told me without batting an eye that GW was partying, not
working on the campaign and in fact, had bedded a beautiful young wife
of
an up-and-coming author [later to publish the book "Forrest Gump"] from
whom he was renting a garage apartment. 

(10) She further said that George W. Bush was neither sober nor
dependable
throughout the entire campaign. 

(11) She indicated that George W. was asked about his Guard requirements
and when he was going to drill.  He did not provide feedback of any
kind. 

(12) Yes, the critical question to me is still: If GW really completed
his
assigned six-year commitment, then why has his surrogate, Dan Bartlett
or
senior National Guard Officers of Texas not provided his pay files and
his
complete retirement points listing (which are the only two documents
which
officially provide the detailed evidence to answer the question) to
prove
it and clear this issue from the Campaign. 

(13) Further, why were these documents not originally provided within
the
FOIA that you filed?? 

(14) I was asked by someone during the past 24 hours if there was any
criminal activity that I saw occur. In answering that question, one must
first understand that "no action is an action" and the act of omission
is
an act which demonstrates intent; yet which shifts the burden of proof
to
the questioner.  That is the modus operandi employed within this
question. 

(15) Those critical two documents which answer the questions and
allegations of AWOL or satisfactory completion of the six year
commitment
are easily and OFFICIALLY answered by the pay records and the retirement
points records. 

(16) But these documents also can indict any actions by senior leaders
to
attempt to cover such an action by the award of retirement points
without
pay, for example. 

(17) The requirement for completion of a "good year" toward retirement
is
compilation of 50 retirement points. 

(18) During the 1967-1973 timeframe, however, I personally remember that

completion of a retirement "good year" was not sufficient.  There was a
thing called "Satisfactory Drill participation".  In this case, any
soldier or airman who failed to appear as ordered was at least given an
unsatisfactory on such drill periods. 

(19) As a unit commander in a New Mexico unit, I was granted the
authority
to give an article 15, including arrest and confinement in the local
jail.
I used that option with soldiers who did not show up for drill on a few
occasions. 

(20) But this punishment also included the ability to fine and reduce in
rank, which I used more frequently. 

(21) Military discipline was taken seriously, not laxly, during the
Vietnam War.  If a soldier received eight unsatisfactory drill periods
(two weekends) during a training year, in New Mexico we automatically
referred those people to the State headquarters, where they could be
reassigned, including acceleration into active duty service in Vietnam. 

(22) Needless to say, I did not tolerate nor have discipline problems
within my command.  Whether my soldiers were 18, 30, or 50 they were
expected to be man enough to complete the obligation and commitment that
they made. 

(23) I raised more than one "spoiled brat" within my command time.  They
typically were sons of "important people"; but they got no special
treatment. And in every case that I had, they asked for no special
treatment. 

(24) Only on one occasion did the issue of special dispensation ever
come
up. Strangely it was brought up by my Brigade Commander, not by the
soldier himself.  I asked the soldier for clarification and he was, in
fact, upset that the issue ever arose. 

(25) When I accepted command of this unit it was at 73% assigned
strength.
Within 12 months it was at 122% assigned strength and when I left
command
it was at 137% strength.  This was during the same period (years 4-6) of
George Bush's commitment. 

(26) As a commander, I nominated three young officers to go to flight
school and become helicopter pilots.  There was a waiting list of about
50
or so even in New Mexico for flight school. 

(27) This was a long and laborious process which was extremely rare. Two
of my young lieutenants became pilots.  Certainly the process was much
more disciplined that what GW faced. 

(28) But even with the soft, kid glove treatment that GW received, why
would neither he nor his top campaign officials release this information
that you have requested in order to clear this issue? " 

CONTACT:  Bob Rogers - Vets for Real Truth
                                                703-620-0625 Oakton,
Northern VA

Ok there is this record which is very important because I think it does
not show any service between 1972 and Oct. 1973.  But ALSO read from
1971
to 1972.  Bush only had 22 days!  Another very important issue! Now, Bob
Rogers, (Jo, Bob Rogers is an 11 year Air National Guard Vet) is saying
that since Bush only had 22 days by the end of 1972 that those days from
the May - July 1973 document are all gratuitous (this document unsigned
and undated -- unlike the torn document which is unsigned and undated
but
also shows no dates of service- active or inactive -- gratuitous or not)
because "gratuitous" time does not count as scheduled Texas Air Guard
duty. This leaves Bush without a single legitimate Texas Air National
Guard service day for his fifth and sixth years of service to his Texas
Air National Guard discharge on October 1, 1973 – a critical fact that
has been misunderstood in several previous reports of this period of
Bush's service.

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