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Date Posted: 05:53:46 09/18/04 Sat
Author: It's A Non-denial, Denial
Subject: Holy Cow, Batman,
In reply to: on Bush 's message, "Texan has a history of attacks" on 09:53:48 09/17/04 Fri


September 15, 2004
The Longer CBS Memo

Via Drudge and the Instapundit, CBS has issued a longer statement defending their indefensible position. Glenn Reynolds characterizes the CBS defense as an admission that the memos are fake but the substance is "accurate."

CBS feints by obfuscating the conclusions of their "experts" and refusing to acknowledge the conclusions of the real experts that the memos are fakes.

CBS says that Hodges is a liar now and was telling the "truth" when interviewed by them. No transcript of the original Hodge CBS interview has been made available. I strongly suspect Hodge is truthful now in his description of his interview by CBS as being manipulative and leading.

CBS also renews its reliance on Ben Barnes who is a Kerry partisan, who is known to be loose with the truth and who was not the Lieutenant Governor of Texas at the time necessary to bring the undue influence to get Mr. Bush into the National Guard. (I actually don't doubt that some form of privilege helped Mr. Bush get into the National Guard but so what? It's the way "bidnezz" was done in Texas at the time and the same thing happens all the time, now. So if privilege is a disqualifying factor for the Presidency, isn't Mr. Kerry disqualified too? Or is there a gigolo exception?)

Then, the penultimate conclusion of the CBS memo is:

Through all of the frenzied debate of the past week, the basic content of the 60 MINUTES Wednesday report - that President Bush received preferential treatment to gain entrance to the Texas Air National Guard and that he may not have fulfilled all of the requirements -- has not been substantially challenged.

The real issue presented by the memos is the allegation by innuendo that Mr. Bush violated law or regulations to the extent that Mr. Bush should not have received an honorable discharge. That is what CBS is implying by "he may not have fulfilled all of the requirements" and that is a bald face lie of monumental proportions.

We know that pay records were produced five years ago showing that Lt. Bush put in sufficient time to satisfy his obligations. We also know from five years ago that Mr. Bush did not take a flight physical and was taken off flight status. So what? A violation - sufficient to deny an honorable discharge - this does not make. Angst by LTC Killian, or others in the chain of command, does not make a violation sufficient to deny an honorable discharge. Marion Carr Knox's recitation that there was "yak, yak" about Lt. Bush does not make a violation of the UCMJ or any regulation.

A little context of the times is in order. The United States invlovement in the Vietnam War was over. The last American combat soldiers left Vietnam in March 1973. Pilots were returning to Continental United States assignments in droves. RIFs (reduction in force) were in full swing. It is more likely than not that those in charge believed that Lt. Bush - having no Vietnam combat experience (yes, I said that – so what? neither do I – I was a JAGC officer) – was, as the British say, redundant. The TANG likely had a waiting list for combat experienced RIFFed pilots desiring to join up – pilots trained on F-4’s and other more advanced aircraft that were replacing the F-102’s that Lt. Bush was qualified to fly.

The only "evidence" shown by CBS of any claimed wrongdoing is in the forged memos. CBS seeks to imply that then Lt. Bush refused a direct order - which is a criminal offence under the UCMJ - by LTC Killian in a forged memo dated August, 18, 1973. That’s after the war folks.

If LTC Killian believed that Lt. Bush violated the UCMJ, then the procedure would be to notify the Court Martial convening authority or otherwise institute administrative proceedings for a discharge on less than honorable grounds. I doubt if LTC Killian was a Court Martial convening authority. If any misconduct sufficient to deny an honorable discharge were alleged, a proceeding was necessary to afford the accused violator of notice and an opportunity to be heard. And that would be documented.

That did not happen. Any "yak, yak" is just hot air from a clearly impeachable source - Marion Carr Knox who is a partisan Bush hater - and she verifies that the guard unit led by LTC Killian did not have any typewriter capable of reproducing the forged memos blowing out any CBS claim of authenticity of the memos. Ms. Knox even states that the language was not consistent with TANG terminology. So what can CBS rely on to authenticate the memos – nothing, nada, nix.

There is no evidence of any Court Martial or administrative proceeding to deny an honorable discharge.

No amount of obfuscation will change the fact that CBS has no story without the memos and the memos are fakes – the case against the President is closed. The case against CBS and the document fraud perpetrated by CBS now opens in earnest.

Now, CBS, my challenge - while you twist in the wind and the forces of truth shred you - is for you to seek disclosure of the military records of Mr. John Kerry with as much zeal as you have chased a non-story about President Bush.

Posted on September 15, 2004
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