Bush's military file contained a second document that also asked for
information on any arrests.
Portions of that page, his enlistment application, are also blacked
out.
White House press secretary Scott McClellan showed a small group of
reporters a copy of Bush's application to be an officer, with nothing
blacked out, after USA TODAY published a picture of the blacked-out
document Thursday.
The accompanying report said that Guard officials in Texas had been
concerned about embarrassing information in Bush's military records
before the files were released to the public beginning in 1999,
according to two former Guard officials.
Bush aides denied there was any effort to suppress any potentially
embarrassing information.
One of the Guard officials told the newspaper that senior officers in
Texas were especially concerned about a question on the form asking
about arrests.
From USA TODAY, 2/13/04:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&ncid=716&e=24&u=/usatoday/20040213/ts_usatoday/bushsdrivingrecordsdisclosed
Bush's driving records disclosed
By Dave Moniz and Jim Drinkard, USA TODAY
The White House disclosed information in documents Thursday showing
that President Bush had been arrested once for a college prank and was
cited for two automobile accidents and two speeding tickets before he
enlisted in the National Guard.
The accidents and tickets were disclosed for the first time in
response to questions about a portion of Bush's military record that
had been blacked out when the file was made public during the 2000
presidential campaign.
The traffic violations are significant in the context of Bush's
military career.
At the time Bush enlisted in the Texas National Guard, the Air Force
typically would have had to issue a waiver for an applicant who had
multiple arrests or driving violations.
An officer who served at the same time as the president, former Texas
Air National Guard pilot Dean Roome, was required by the Air Force to
get a waiver for a $25 speeding ticket when he enlisted in the Air
National Guard in 1967.
There is no record of an enlistment waiver in Bush's military file.
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It gets stranger and stranger as we get deeper and deeper.
Harry
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