USA Today Chirps in -- Are there Charts & Graphs?

Just in case the pundit class (I'm looking at you Lou Dobbs and Tweety) need a reason to explain why this is relevant today, this explains why:

Her account and Killian's memos contradict answers by Bush, his friends and campaign officials to questions about why he stopped flying fighter jets and moved to Alabama in May 1972. The president has maintained through advisers and in two biographies that the reason he left a coveted pilot slot in the Texas Air National Guard was to learn the trade of political campaigning from Jimmy Allison.

Questions about Bush's Guard tenure have lingered for more than four years.

Bush served in the Texas Air National Guard from 1968-73. The Boston Globe reported in 2000 that Bush vaulted over hundreds of applicants to get a coveted slot in the Guard during the Vietnam War and was immediately awarded a competitive pilot position despite low qualifying scores on aptitude tests and four misdemeanor citations.

I like this description:

C. Murphy Archibald, who worked on the Blount campaign, said that in the fall of 1972, Bush frequently was late for work on the Alabama campaign and often bragged about how much he drank the night before.

"I was bowled over by the competence of this guy Allison, but perplexed by how he had brought this young guy along who seemed to have so little interest in the campaign," Archibald recalled. On most days, Archibald said, Bush arrived at campaign headquarters around noon or 1 p.m. and left around 5:30 or 6 p.m., leaving assigned duties unfinished.

Mark Kleiman, via Atrios, adds to the basis of WHY it reflects as to the merits of his leadership TODAY and how he has explained his behavior 30 plus years ago TODAY, and that is by lying about it and covering it up.

During the 2000 election season, the Bush campaign claimed that Bush had released all of his military records. That was false. Early this year, under pressure, the White House released another batch of records, claiming that it had now released all of Mr. Bush's military records. That, too, was false. Two days ago, under lawsuit from the AP, the White House released another batch of documents, claiming once again that all documents had now been released.
Yesterday, for reasons not publicly explained, the White House centralized authority over all responses to requests for Mr. Bush's military records. This seemed strange if all the records had already been released.

Tonight, after the 60 Minutes report, the White House released two of the documents 60 Minutes had just presented. Were they just copying CBS, or did they have those documents already? And what other documents do they have, or know about, that they're trying to prevent other parts of the government from releasing by centralizing authority to respond to FOIA requests?

The line of lying bullshit and coverup over this issue from the White House is a thick enough coating for all of Texas.