Bogus Bush Biography Found on U.S. Embassy in Hanoi website

[sabra]

http://newsroom.eworldwire.com/view_release.php?id=13006

Bogus Bush Biography Found by Hugh E. Scott Sent on U.S. Embassy WebsiteTo FBI


NEWBURY PARK, Calif./EWORLDWIRE/Oct. 31, 2005 --- On October 22, 2005, investigative journalist Hugh E. Scott sent the FBI copies of a falsified White House biography he found on the Internet. The text claimed that claimed President Bush had flown Texas Air National Guard jets almost six years when the actual time was 27 months.

Additionally, the text asserted that after Bush spent two years on active duty operating F102 interceptors, he was on "part-time status, flying occasional missions" for nearly four years into 1974. However, official copies of Air National Guard records in Scott's possession show Lt. Bush quit interceptors in April 1972, was grounded on August 1, 1972, for failing to take a mandatory medical exam and missed Guard drills later that year after transferring to a non-flying ANG unit in Alabama.

Scott discovered the phony history on September 29, 2005, on a website maintained by the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi. A week later, on October 6, when he accessed the website again, Bush's biography had been deleted. Scott believes his October 4 e-mails to Washington news outlets alerted the White House of the 3,900-word text, which he believes it erased.

The cover-up came too late, however. During his first visit to the website, Scott made a printout of the suspicious document and mailed copies to friends for safekeeping.

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In February 2004, Scott found an identical bogus biography on another State Department website. With what appeared to be smoking-gun evidence of an aborted GOP scheme to embellish Bush's military record before the 2000 election, Scott called the Boston Globe. Impressed, it reported his discovery on February 28, 2004, under the headline, "Bush Bio on Web Inflates Guard Service," and credited Scott as its source.

Looked up the purged page @ archive.org:

http://web.archive.org/web/20041029093231/vietnam.usembassy.gov/wwwhbiobush.html

George W. graduated from Yale in May of 1968 with a major in history. Two weeks before graduation, he went to the offices of the Texas Air National Guard at Ellington Air Force Base outside Houston to sign up for pilot training. One motivation, he said, was to learn to fly, as his father had done during World War II. George W. was commissioned as a second lieutenant and spent two years on active duty, flying F-102 fighter interceptors. For almost four years after that, he was on a part-time status, flying occasional missions to help the Air National Guard keep two of its F-102s on round-the-clock alert.

[rosesaylavee]

1. For some reason, the bolder the lie, the easier to fool

people. I don't purport understand human nature but that is what I have observed.

[sabra]

2. guess * doesn't realize once you post something on the internets

it will be found?

Never the less, he currently is our pResident, so I guess they really don't give a shit.

[NanceGreggs]

3. Does the White House Personnel Dep't ...

... take in 'outside' work? Why shouldn't ALL Americans have the benefit of their ability to 'polish' one's resume? As we learned during the FEMA fiasco, they did a GREAT job on Brownie's CV -- and now this!!!!

Just wonderin' ...

[emulatorloo]

4. This really is HUGH!1!1

Sorry I could not resist.

As always, sabra thanks for the link.

[sabra]

5. my pleasure!

peace :-)

[ClintonTyree]

6. Like everything Republican, if the truth does not fit your agenda..

make shit up. Hey, it's worked for them for the last decade or so. They'll keep going to the same well until it either drys up or someone poisons it, the poison here being the truth. Republicans run from the truth like Vampires from sunlight, it's a sure way to fuck them up.
I had to get a little Halloween stuff in the post since Halloween is such a sinful, evil even according to fundamentalists. :evilgrin:

[pnorman]

7. DAMN!! That was a rare find!

We all knew that the Bush story was built on a mountain of LIES, but it was difficult to pin it down in the face of Reptilican bafflegabbing and BULLSHIT (also barefaced LYING). But that archived webpage nails him DEAD!!

pnorman

[raggedcompany]

8. Not to rain on your parade, but...

This is nothing. Let's say it really blows up, and a story runs on CNN, in print, etc.

What happens?

Nothing.

Bush calls it an administrative error, and that's the last you'll ever hear of it.

I'm not saying it isn't lousy, or indicative of the Bush way (dishonest); just that it has no legs.

Anyone remember James Guckert? A lot of us thought that had legs, too.



edited for typo.