White House "Honesty," Illustrated...

[MrBenchley]

courtesy of Digby at Hullaballoo....

"February 13, 2004
Russert: But you authorize the release of everything to settle this?
President Bush: Yes, absolutely. We did so in 2000, by the way.

April 28, 2004
Q He's bringing up an issue that was bounced around this room at length --
MR. McCLELLAN: And it's been fully addressed, and all the records have been released, and the President fulfilled his duty and was proud to serve and be honorably discharged from the National Guard.

September 8, 2004
Q Will the Commander-in-Chief insist that his Pentagon get to the bottom, find every last document of the National Guard service?
MR. McCLELLAN: I think that's what the President directed back in February.
Q Are you frustrated, or is he, that more documents are surfacing?
MR. McCLELLAN: All the personnel, payroll, and medical records have been made public, and the President directed back in February that the Department of Defense do a comprehensive search and make all the documents available, and we had assurances that they had done that and, unfortunately, we have since found out that it was not as comprehensive as we thought. So they've continued to go and look for additional documents.
Q Is the President frustrated, irritated by this?
MR. McCLELLAN: See, that's why I pointed out that all the personnel, payroll and medical records have been released.
Q How do you know that?
MR. McCLELLAN: They've assured us that all those records are out, and in fact, you have those records.

September 16, 2004:
White House press secretary Scott McClellan hinted that more documents regarding Bush's National Guard service may soon be released. Asked whether officials in the White House have seen unreleased documents, McClellan called that "a very real possibility." Other officials with knowledge of the situation said more documents had indeed been uncovered and would be released in the coming days. "

http://haloscan.com/tb/digby/109530750206952286

[CrispyQ]

1. Is the list of military records on Kerry's web site complete?

http://www.johnkerry.com/about/john_kerry/military_records.html

[Sparkly]

2. What would anybody need to see that isn't there?

Looks complete to me.

[buycitgo]

3. what's your agenda, pal?

was this thread about Kerry?

can you clarify?

[Cocoa]

4. non sequitur

strange, short post, not clear what it has to do with the original post, why don't you elaborate.

[CrispyQ]

6. Some moron in the paper wrote a LTTE & stated

--that Kerry hadn't released all his military records either. I found the listing & it looks pretty complete to me & I want to respond.

[buycitgo]

5. why is anybody buying the idea that all the records have been released?

WHAT medical records?

I thought he refused to release those?

are there any flight physical records?

he should have had one in each year from 68 to 71, right?

what happened to those? would make for an interesting baseline

and what about the investo that supposedly ALWAYS happens after one refuses to take/flunks a flight physical?

what happened to THAT?

and why no explanation as to why he didn't get out of the TANG as a captain, as almost every single pilot who gets through without major record smudges does

what about THAT?

[MrBenchley]

7. You got me...

I yet to even see an explanation as to why Junior Birdman had to be personally singled out and ordered to take a physical that was mandatory for everyone else in the National Guard...much less anything to show he actually obeyed that order....

[Supersedeas]

8. We did so in 2000, by the way....We did so in 2000 (Follow-up, Timmy???)