  If I had felt a little better when I first heard this early this morning around 6:30 AM I would have posted it immediately.
What would posses me to want to post something that early considering I had been asleep (I was woken up for Benadryl, Dilauded, and Fortaz) and would have slipped back into the warm embrace of unconsciousness. There was a very short bit of blurb or press release from the White House. It seems that three months of El-Presidente' Bushs' military record had been destroyed. The real shocking part is that it was the months of service records that would show where he had been when missing and why; possibly, he was decertified for flight.
I am sure that is was this big ole' mistake and all of the records from that three month period for his Texas Air National Guard unit were destroyed...so if you wanted to oh say, find someone else's record it would be impossible. The New York Times is the one who is reporting this mess. It seems that there was an effort to preserve microfitch films of payroll records and they were destroyed. I don't know how you screw that kind of restoration and preservation up. They have been practicing for many years in keeping them fresh and usable. It is just mighty damn convenient. I just wanted to get that up. I heard it first on CNN and they were reporting on a NY Times report. Some linx...how clever of me linx/links (wink wink) NY Times links may require registration Reuters report at NY Times. The same article different place on NY Times. Campaign 2004 Coverage on NY Times. You may have to register to get the articles...but registration is free.
Regardless of whether it was truly an accident or it was a deliberate destruction of files there is something else that comes into play. When the records were finally pried from the White House some time back at the beginning of the year they claimed that those were all the files and they had done thorough research trying to find the paperwork. They released all of it with some of it blacked out for privacy reasons (which I understand, but it looks like he is hiding something he is still entitled to some privacy) they made a very big deal of the fact that they were releasing all of the files and that they missed nothing.
Remember they released them late on a Friday evening and didn't let the press remove them from the office so they had to scour through them late in the evening and were not allowed to take them out to thoroughly vet them. So they lied again on this...while it may have taken them by surprise, it really should not have if they had truly looked under every rock, looked through all the records and such. So it was a lie of omission. Peace 
