Bush Military History Project # 15

This is being written as a journal in democraticunderground.com and crossposted on Dailykos, Truthout and Myleftwing.
I urge readers of this series to obtain a copy of Unfit Commander by Glenn Smith, the only source of Bush’s military papers in chronological order. Where internet references are not easily available I will give page numbers of this book for reference.
I also urge readers to become familiar with the report by Lt Col Gerald Lechliter, published in the NY Times, available at: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/opinion/lechliter.pdf
Or Google: NY Times Gerald Lechliter. I will be referring to both of these sources in this study.
I can be reached at concernedexlrrp@hotmail.com


Before I start up on the specifics of the crimes, I want to go over the federal status of the CBS papers one more time.

Every US military document is a federal document, owned by us all. Every document that is, or should be, in an official military file is a federal document. The TXANG is a federal unit, an offshoot of the USAF—any written document coming from them is a federal document. There are no “private” official documents written in the TXANG or anywhere else in the military. (Top Secret, yes, but that doesn’t apply here) George Bush’s suspension order and any orders he was given in his military career are federal documents, owned by us all—and should be in his record, by law.

Two of the CBS memos represent federal documents concerning George Bush: TXANG orders, the physical order and the suspension order. ( http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-09-09bushdocs.pdf Pages 3&5 )They purport to be official TXANG orders: they have letterhead of a federal unit, they purport to be official TXANG business: official orders, and they’re signed or initialed by the commander of that federal unit in performance of his duties. If a commander of a federal unit signs an official document in performance of his federal duties, then that makes it an official federal document. And the American Public has a right—and a need-- to know whether its real or not.

And if they’re real, they should have been in George Bush’s file—the Suspension memo by regulation. (AFM35-13, para 2-10b2: "CBPO-SA will insure that the unit personnel record copy of an aeronautical order which ....imposes or revokes a suspension...will be acknowledged by the person concerned to indicate time and date of the receipt of orders..." See BMHP #5) If these are real, then someone committed another crime by removing them: altering official documents (think: D Bartlett and General D James, according to Burkett’s sworn statement—we’ll be discussing this in the future)

The TXANG, along with the entire federal government, is shirking their duty to investigate and resolve this issue—these represent THEIR papers and nothing but although they pretend they’re not. The TXANG is stonewalling this whole matter entirely, refusing to investigate allegedly forged TXANG orders that, if forged, libel their commander in chief and other TXANG officers. It is the duty of the TXANG, the Air Force, the Pentagon, the entire Department of Defense and the rest of the federal government to prove or disprove these papers. And the entire federal government has sat on their hands this whole time, pretending that the bloggers and CBS “investigation” solved this “officially,” with help from the media. America: you’ve been screwed by your Commander in Chief! With a lot of help from the rest of the federal government and the media.

There’s been a lot of smoke and mirrors thrown up to disguise this fact. First they try to claim these are “private papers” (with help from CBS!) Then they try to claim that although these documents are federal, they’re not the kind of federal documents that can be investigated or prosecuted. Evidently they’re not federal enough? This is a lie! How federal was Terry Schiavo before Congress and the Republicans stepped into that? The difference is that the Terry Schiavo case wouldn’t have gotten Bush’s “honorable” discharge torn up. The Congress can investigate anything they want to—and they sure don’t want to investigate allegedly forged federal papers that, if forged, libel their President, do they?

America, don’t you know yet when these people are lying to you? (hint: their mouths are open) This is an issue for the Federal government to solve—and its very evident they don’t want to investigate and prosecute the wrongdoings around the CBS memos. Its very evident that they want you to believe that the CBS memos are forged but they won’t use any of the law enforcement resources that could solve this, or any other due and legal process , all of which they have at their beck and call. Its very evident that Bush, his aides and his former chain of command know whether the CBS orders are real or not (see BMHP #1, #2,#3) yet no federal agent or authority has ever asked them officially, under oath, nor his chain of command either. They have evaded those questions or had their surrogates answer deceptively. An Honest Man would have insisted on making a public statement and demanded an investigation but there aren’t any Honest Men in this story.

Wouldn’t you think the Federal government would want to resolve this officially? Wouldn’t you think Bush and the Republicans would—if they could? Why should they, when everything has ended in their favor and they never had to prove a thing officially and neither Bush, his aides nor his former chain of command ever had to answer any hard questions? Their Victory is complete and they never proved a thing—and America got screwed.

Demand an official federal investigation of the CBS Papers, America—they belong to YOU! And you need to know whether they’re real or not and have it proven officially by your duly authorized federal authorities—not by bloggers and CBS. Any wrongdoing about these papers must be investigated and prosecuted—that’s the LAW! Did you see it happen?

IN BMHP #13 we started looking at the last two of the CBS memos and their tie in to Bush’s records and the falsification that was being done.

Taken as a whole , forged or not, , what the CBS memos represent are documents Col Killian would have kept to protect himself in case he was held accountable for all the falsifications he was doing in Bush’s record.

Falsification like the OER we’ve been talking about, where he falsely backdated Bush’s exit from the 111th, falsely listed Bush as a pilot, falsely stated that Bush had been in Alabama, falsely made no mention of Bush’s suspension or that he hadn’t flown all that year and refused to rate Bush when required. (See BMHP #11, #12)

If real, the CBS memos tell an alternate story from the Bush-approved one, one as seen from the eyes of his commander Jerry Killian, who we know was playing fast and fancy games with the record. That’s: the official PUBLIC Record.

The scheme was to have Bush disappear from their unit—to “ghost”—while still keeping him listed as a pilot, even paying him as a pilot, until they could get him close enough to hid discharge date that they could give him an “early out.” This is federal fraud.

You can’t be listed as a pilot and paid as a pilot if you don’t have the qualifications to be a pilot: that is FRAUD! George Bush chose to be stripped of ALL of his qualifications (see discharge: Qualifications : NONE ) when he chose not to take his physical and Killian suspended him on August 1st, 1972. That also meant he forfeited his pilots pay. Yet Bush was listed as a pilot—and paid for pilot duty-- for the next 14 months after he was suspended from performing the only job he’s listed on his discharge as having: 1125D: F102 Pilot. I see federal Fraud and embezzlement here….don’t you?

How could he be paid for performing pilot’s duty when he was suspended from doing it? Bush is ONLY listed as a pilot for the rest of his service after his suspension up to his discharge, so they sure weren’t paying him for anything else. Curiously, many of the redactions in his papers after his supension are where his AFSC (job title) should be.
If this fact is proven correct: That Bush took pay for being a pilot, when he couldn’t have been a pilot, for days that he couldn’t have served (see Lechliter and BMHP) then he embezzled federal money. And his superiors conspired to do it with him. Was that a good enough reason to scramble his papers?

That’s the seriousness of the charges the CBS memos illustrate. It’s as serious as a heart attack for Bush and his superiors. And for the leaders of the TXANG at the time for knowing about it but looking the other way. You just bet they don’t want to investigate this. They won’t investigate this until they’re forced to, most probably in a court of law.

The 6th document of the CBS papers, the “Sir, we can’t rate memo” should be taken as an example of Killian’s trying to get his superiors’ illegal order to rate Bush on paper. Killian knew that the Alabama unit was supposed to rate Bush and he also knew they weren’t going to—or they would have. He knew the order to rate Bush—to fill out the OER-- was illegal and that’s why he wrote this back. What was the answer to this?

The drop dead silver bullet for Bush is the statement that Bush was not training with Killian’s unit during this time—a statement (though we know at least part of its false) that also means Bush was not authorized pay through his unit. A statement that is reitierated in the rcords, the OER and memo#7. Killian was pretending by now that Bush had left his unit in May—its what his units records show but not what all the communications between the parties show (pages 251-263 Unfit Commander). And he’s staying by that line.

And that line says Bush was not in his unit the whole year. Add that to the Alabama unit’s denial up to this day that he served there, Emily Marks’s unsworn opinion not withstanding. Neither of the 2 units he could possibly have served in will vouch for his attendance yet he cashed checks for 14 days pilot’s pay for pilot’s work he could not have done, having been suspended from doing it. What was America getting for this 14 days pay?
We’ll be looking at this in the next installment of the Bush Military History Project