WTF Is It Now?!?

AWOL docs traced

To a copy center practically right next door to retired Texas National Guard officer Bill Burkett, who 'has been named as a possible source for the documents.'

"In news interviews earlier this year, Burkett said he overheard a telephone conversation in the spring of 1997 in which top Bush aides asked the head of the Texas National Guard to sanitize Bush's files as he was running for a second term as governor of Texas. Several days later, he said, he saw dozens of pages from Bush's military file dumped in a trash can at Camp Mabry, the Guard's headquarters.

The Bush aides Burkett named as participants in the telephone conversation were Chief of Staff Joe M Allbaugh, [chief nanny] Karen Hughes and Dan Bartlett. All three Bush aides and former Texas National Guard Maj. Gen. Daniel James have strongly denied the allegations.

In a related development, White House propaganda minister Scott McClellan hinted that more documents regarding Bush's National Guard service may soon be released, even though he told us last month that all documents had been released. And those were some they pulled out of their ass after we had been told that everything had been released back then. Jebus...

Follow-up: Rep. Christopher Cox (R-Hypocrite) asked that a House subcommittee investigate what he called "the continued use of CBS News of apparently forged documents" intended to damage Snorty McStaggers' "reputation" and "influence the outcome of the 2004 presidential election." But the panel's chairman, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.), rejected the request, saying that the oversight of network news should be left to the viewing public and news media.

"The Republicans' latest attempt to intimidate the news media is a waste of taxpayer money and an egregious example of how this Republican House only exercises its oversight responsibility for partisan political reasons," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi added. "Clearly, Republicans will stop at nothing to distract the public from their miserable record."

Word.