if these records exonerated shrub, the military would have come forward with them a couple of years ago.
the military keeps everything in triplicate, right? "no back up paper copies could be found."
microfilm is really hard to destroy unless it's exposed to great variations of temperature, set on fire, or .... according to a friend who used to work with microfilm a few years back, if it's kept in a normal clean, dry environment, it will last a very long time. and it's extremely easy to duplicate. it's not vulnerable to magnetic energy as computer disks are.
accidentally on purpose.
i doubt the military cares about shrub. it's protecting itself from the obvious charges of protecting a military deserter for decades, and not coming forward when he was chosen president. not too different from the problem the catholic church is having with pedophile priests. protect the institution at all costs.
the military has made it clear there's no doubt shrub was AWOL and is a deserter who belongs in prison.
R
----- Original Message ----- From: "DeborahSRogers" <debburz at yahoo.com> To: <debburz at yahoo.com> Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 4:30 AM Subject: [lbo-talk] *Gasp!* Pentagon: Bush record accidentally destroyed
: Are we surprised?
:
: - Deb
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: July 8, 2004, 11:34PM
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: Pentagon: Bush record accidentally destroyed
: By RALPH BLUMENTHAL
: New York Times
:
: WASHINGTON -- Military records that could help establish President
: Bush's whereabouts during his disputed service in the Texas Air
: National Guard more than 30 years ago have been inadvertently
: destroyed, according to the Pentagon.
:
: It said the payroll records of "numerous service members," including
: former First Lt. Bush, had been ruined in 1996 and 1997 by the
: Defense Finance and Accounting Service during a project to salvage
: deteriorating microfilm.
:
: No backup paper copies could be found, it added in notices dated June
: 25.
:
: The destroyed records cover three months of a period in 1972 and 1973
: when Bush's claims of service in Alabama are in question.
:
: The disclosure appeared to catch some experts, both pro-Bush and con,
: by surprise. Even the retired lieutenant colonel who studied Bush's
: records for the White House, Albert C. Lloyd of Austin said it came
: as news to him.
:
: The loss was announced by the Defense Department's Office of Freedom
: of Information and Security Review in letters to The New York Times
: and other news organizations that for nearly six months have sought
: Bush's complete service file under the open records law.
:
: There was no mention of the loss, for example, when White House
: officials released hundreds of pages of the president's military
: records last February in an effort to stem Democratic charges that he
: was "AWOL" for a time during his commitment to fly at home in the Air
: National Guard during the Vietnam War.
:
: The disclosure that the payroll records had been destroyed came in a
: letter signed by C.Y. Talbott, chief of the Pentagon's Freedom of
: Information Office.
:
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: =====
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