Bush Aides Scrubbed Guard Records - Meir paid $19,000 in 1998

[Melinda]

5 plus years ago:

Newsweek reported on July 9, 2000 that the Bush campaign "launched a secretive research operation designed to scour all records relating to his Vietnam-era service" during preparation for Bush's 1998 re-election campaign. They paid "hard-nosed Dallas lawyer named Harriet Miers" $19,000 to review the records. According to Newsweek, one result of her work was to deflect charges that former Texas House Speaker Ben Barnes helped Bush get into the Texas Air National Guard despite low qualifications and a long waiting list. Barnes was later forced to testify under oath that he helped Bush.

The same Newsweek article also discusses the absence of evidence that Bush fulfilled his orders to report for duty in Alabama in the fall of 1972. According to the article, "Dan Bartlett conceded that the records 'were either lost or misplaced... we are not sure.'" If Burkett's charges are true, Bartlett may have had a hand in losing or misplacing these records.

Cached from Democrats.org

Looks, walks, smells like Quid Pro Quo...must be a duck! Would that Dan Rather WOULD/COULD pick it back up!!

[KaryninMiami]

1. Let's just hope they ask her about this during the questioning.

Maybe we should start emailing the Senators on that committee to make sure that this gets addressed? It's not like something she can deny and it's certainly not a case that might come up in the future (which was the excuse Roberts used not to answer many questions...)

We need to keep this woman out of the Supreme Court...

[Melinda]

2. An email blast is an excellent idea... maybe DU Activists could run w/it

Great suggestion, thanks!

[robbedvoter]

5. Schumer will insist to know...her favorite movie! Guy is tough!

He bragged about doing that to Roberts, I expect no less for him this time. Maybe he'll go for favorite book too.

[natrat]

11. are you kidding?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Bingo. Ask her under oath what she knows of Bush's NG non-service.

[On Par]

4. You Could Sell Tickets When Biden Asks Her That Question!

[robbedvoter]

6. Biden? yeah, the guy who asked Clarence Thomas those tough questions!

All's well with the world - Biden will stand guard for democracy!:rofl:

[On Par]

14. The Dissenting Votes Weren't There...

If you recall, he received a note with a vote count while questioning Doggert, and wrapped it up.

[KaryninMiami]

13. My thought exactly. Except there's one small problem--

She may be given a list of topics that are not permitted to be discussed under "presidential privilege" or some shit like that. One would have to wonder however, if the actual article is displayed, how she would get around this since the facts are in fact, already in the public domain, but I wouldn't be surprised if they figured out a way for her not to answer anything pertaining to
Bush's personal history and her attorney client relationship with him.

With that said, getting this story out into the public during the questioning would be a very good thing...

[texpatriot2004]

7. Harriet's beginning in the whole TANG affair eh? n/t

[mom cat]

8. I think that Bush is doing egregious things like this nomination to divert

us from his miserable failings and to make a last ditch effort to shore up right wing support. I hope that this backfires in his face like everything else that he has done lately.

[charlyvi]

9. Wouldn't it be rich if shrub's choice for SCOTUS ends up

frying his ass over the doctored TANG records.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[DanCa]

12. oh what a tangled web we weave (nt)

[ChairmanAgnostic]

10. scrub-a-dub dub.

hey, let me See these records which will no longer exist.
sumabich.

she was a criminal lawyer whose firm fucked over investors and paid 20 extra-large in fines (million, that is)
she is a criminal lawyer who scrubbed shrub's history to insure his re-election and to prevent serious review during the upcoming presidential selection?

and scrubshrub dares tell the american sheepoles that she is the most qualified to sit on the highest bench in the country? if any and I mean A N Y democratic senator approves of this evil partisan witch for the USSC, I will actively work on that member's replacement.
this is it, folks, either we stand together, or we are fucked for at least a generation. I just hope some democratic senators grow a spine real fast.