Friday News Dump - AP has a new pack of Bush TANG records

[Pirate Smile]

WASHINGTON - A packet of Texas Air National Guard records newly released Friday showed that the commanding officer of President Bush's basic training unit took a special interest in him as a trainee and wrote to his father to praise his son.

Bush's father, then a congressman from Texas, said in reply to the commander, "That a major general in the Air Force would take interest in a brand new Air Force trainee made a big impression on me."

Bush went on to say that his son "will be a gung ho member" of the Air Force and that Air Force instructors had "helped awaken the very best instincts in my son."

-snip-

In addition to the letter from Bush's father, the latest documents contain news releases that the Texas Air National Guard sent to Houston newspapers in 1970 about young Bush, then a second lieutenant and new pilot. "George Bush is one member of the younger generation who doesn't get his kicks from pot or hashish or speed," the news release said. "Oh, he gets high, all right, but not from narcotics."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29762-2004Sep17.html

[slinkerwink]

1. I wonder what those records said

[flpoljunkie]

5. You can bet there won't be any incriminating documents released.

Incriminating ones were destroyed in Texas just as Bill Burkett has maintained all along after Bush minions called the National Guard office where they were maintained.

[Scorpious_Maximus]

2. Link? (nt)

[grasswire]

4. I just saw the report on CNN

...no link yet. One document is a letter from GHWB to the guard official thanking him for helping W.

[Mr_Spock]

3. Hey, what's with the tease?

I want to read them if they exist.

[Pirate Smile]

7. They just reported it and I updated the original post with what I heard.

[AmerDem]

6. why post without anything to back it up?

:wtf:

[DemBones DemBones]

19. Because it was reported on tv news

and some people might be interested. Some people might do a search and find more info online.

Links are only required in LBN and I don't think mods delete posts there that say "this was just on XYZ tv and I'm looking for online link."

[Nevernose]

8. I thought they'd released all the documents?

Yeah, I saw the same snippet on CNN.

[flpoljunkie]

9. Unbelievable! Released to answer Kitty Kelley's cocaine allegations.

In addition to the letter from Bush's father, the latest documents contain news releases that the Texas Air National Guard sent to Houston newspapers in 1970 about young Bush, then a second lieutenant and new pilot. "George Bush is one member of the younger generation who doesn't get his kicks from pot or hashish or speed," the news release said. "Oh, he gets high, all right, but not from narcotics."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29762-20...

[buycitgo]

11. that's OLD OLD stuff. I remember reading that PR during the 2000

selection is THAT what theyre talking about?

not news at all

[Pirate Smile]

12. I think the correspondence between Poppy and the General is new.

AP just got this stuff.

[buycitgo]

13. just talking about the speed/hash stuff...didnt read anything else

skimming other things

thanks for linking, though; they NEED to concentrate on the flight physical. that's KEY

[Scorpious_Maximus]

15. Page Unavailable? WTF? (nt)

[unfrigginreal]

10. Must be forgeries

Everything's already been released, I heard the White House say it.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

14. Those good instincts didn't stay awake very long

And Poppy Bush is admitting that his son's good instincts were asleep before he joined the Guard.

[aquart]

16. TANG news releases so old. Saw them years ago.

[the Kelly Gang]

17. yep..forgeries written on a computer

[aquart]

18. WHY release praise on Friday?????

[DemBones DemBones]

20. Habit? Or there's something else we aren't seeing. . . yet. nt

[snowbear]

21. mo' records

How could they just now find them, when this issue was raised 4 years ago and they never appeared?

The timing is too convenient :thumbsdown: .. I don't buy it.

[WinterStorm]

22. Why are they defending his drug use?

Something is wrong with this picture...something is missing.

[MazeRat7]

23. Jesus F****** Christ... how lame is this.

I can hear it now. The "content" of these "new" documents is what matters, not the "source". Oh, please...... if this were any thiner, I would have to count the molecules to prove it actually exists.....

*grrrrrrrrrrrr

MZr7

[Clinton Crusader]

24. FORGERIES!

George Bush is one member of the younger generation who doesn't get his kicks from pot or hashish or speed," the news release said. "Oh, he gets high, all right, but not from narcotics.

:bounce:
:kick:

[spanone]

25. Didn't the fucking pentagon release ALL THE RECORDS IN FEB?

[napi21]

27. Ahhh yes, but the WH asked them to cast a wider net this time!

You see, I guess the first time they just told them to look in one little drawer! This time they said check the next drawer...but no farther...we might need somethng else later.

The wider net quote is from the CNN reporter.

[hippiegranny]

26. this crap does not pass the smell test.

it should be put under the microscope to verify authenticity. that's what always happens when juniors guard records surface, right?