2/12/2004

From the Washington Post: The documents include payroll sheets never before made public. Summaries prepared by the Defense Financing Accounting Service indicate that Bush was paid for service in October and November 1972 and in January and April 1973. That spans a period -- from May 1972 to May 1973 -- when Bush was assigned to Guard units in Alabama and Houston and that has been the focus of Democratic critics. But the records -- which McClellan said are all the documents that the White House has -- do not show the exact nature or whereabouts of Bush's service during that period. Military experts -- including one cited by the White House -- said such records should exist. In addition, according to the new documents, Bush was performing service or unit drills at a time when his commanding officers in Houston said they could not evaluate him because "he has not been observed" at Ellington Air Force Base in Houston -- as they had written in previously released National Guard records. That report was signed by two officers on May 2, 1973, a day that the new documents show Bush was supposed to have been performing service in Houston. Meanwhile, LiberalOasis argues that this is one thing that Terry McAuliffe deserves credit for not screwing up.

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