The Associated Press on Judge Orders U.S. to Find Bush Records:
A federal judge has ordered the Pentagon to find and make public by next week any unreleased files about President Bush'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.
Interesting development. Yeah, I know – Dean Esmay once politely informed me that I should just give the man the benefit of the doubt and stop talking about his service record.
Not gonna happen. The same sorry crew who spent 8 years screaming "draft dodger" at Clinton are the ones now demanding that we not criticize or investigate the service records of a man who has been accused of shirking duty by officers who served in the same Guard unit with him. I don't care much for hypocrisy based on ideology and party affiliations. These are the same individuals who pimp Cheney as uber-patriot, yet have nothing to say about his five deferments and the fact that while other men and women were bleeding in Vietnam, he had "other priorities."