Contrary to conservatives' claims, Bush has not been forthcoming in release of military service records
Even White House contradicted Hannity's claim that Bush signed form allowing document release
Amid renewed allegations that President George W. Bush may have shirked duties and disobeyed orders during his Vietnam-era Texas Air National Guard service and that he was granted a position in the Guard due to his status as a member of a well-connected and politically powerful family, many conservative members of the media continue to insist that the administration has been completely forthcoming in authorizing the release of the president's military records. While Bush asserted on the February 8 edition of NBC's Meet the Press that he would authorize the release of his military records, the sporadic disclosure of the pertinent documents tells a different story.
On February 13, shortly after Bush's appearance on Meet the Press, the White House produced over 300 pages of military documents in an attempt to put the matter to rest. But according to a February 14 Boston Globe article, those documents "add virtually no new information about Bush's stint in the Texas Air National Guard."
As Media Matters for America has previously noted, the lack of conclusive evidence that Bush completed his service prompted the Associated Press to file a lawsuit against the Air Force and the Pentagon. The suit, filed on June 22, was to "compel access to a microfilm copy of the military personnel file of President George W. Bush."
The subsequent disclosure of Bush's records has been erratic. On July 8, the Defense Department's Office of Freedom of Information and Security Review announced that the payroll records the White House had claimed would confirm Bush's service had been inadvertently destroyed. Then, on July 23, the Pentagon announced that those records had been found at the Federal Records Center in Denver but that they "offered no new evidence
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