-Caveat Lector- http://www.bushwatch.com/ BUSH WATCH PROSECUTOR SAYS BUSH USED HIS OFFICE FOR PERSONAL COVERUP Defense Attorney Terms Governor Bush's Reason Not to Serve on Jury "Laughable," Because "Everybody Understood [Bush] Just Didn't Want to Answer Questions About Drinking and Drugs" While His Lawyer Worked to Get the Governor Out of Jury Duty Inside the Courthouse, Outside, Bush Was Telling the Media That He Was "Glad to Serve" AUSTIN, Tex. -- Travis County's lead prosecutor on the 1996 drunk driving case in which Gov. George W. Bush was called as a potential juror now believes he was purposely misled by Bush and his attorney in an effort to avoid service. Ken Oden, a Democrat who has been the Travis County Attorney for 16 years, charged Saturday that Bush's failure to answer some of the questions on his jury questionnaire, coupled with his lawyer's efforts to get Bush excused because he might someday be called on to pardon the offender, were part of an effort to deceive prosecutors and others. [Bush's lawyer, Al Gonzales, was later appointed by him to the Texas Supreme Court.] Bush 'used his position as governor' to avoid having to answer potentially embarrassing questions about his past, Oden told Salon. 'I feel I was directly deceived....' "At the time Bush was bounced from the jury pool, it was widely believed that he was looking to avoid questions about his hard-drinking past that would surely have come up during jury selection. The Houston Chronicle reported at the time that Bush's dismissal by the court was 'a development that allowed him to avoid potentially embarrassing questions about whether he had ever climbed behind the wheel after drinking....' During the 1996 jury selection process, Oden says, Lastovica, Gonzales, defense lawyer Wahlberg and Judge Crain met in Crain's chambers at the request of Gonzales. In chambers, Gonzales presented his pardon argument. A few minutes later, Lastovica presented the information to Oden for approval. Gonzales' pitch was a 'legal argument relating to his [Bush's] position as governor that none of us had ever heard,' recalled Oden. 'My response was, 'That's an unusual argument.' In 20 years of prosecuting in a town full of government officials, I'd never heard that position before.' 'Our position was that as a matter of courtesy to the governor we would not oppose his request for release from service. At that point, not knowing that he hadn't answered the questionnaire, or having other motives, he was released,' he said.... "The aggressive stance Bush took to avoid service stands in stark contrast to the just-folks story that he was feeding the media. When he first reported for jury duty at the Travis County Courthouse on Sept. 30, Bush told Wayne Slater of the Dallas Morning News, 'I'm glad to serve.' Bush added, 'I think it's important. It's one of the duties of citizenship.' He also told KVUE-TV in Austin, 'I'm just an average guy showing up for jury duty.' And in video footage shown by KVUE in 1996 and again on Friday night, Bush had some additional comments on his feelings regarding the case. The KVUE reporter asked Bush if he didn't 'really just want to give the guy a pardon and go home?' Bush, who has presided over a staggering 145 executions as governor, answered, 'No, I probably want to hang him and go home.' For the record, Maine abolished the death penalty in 1887, 89 years before an inebriated Bush was apprehended while driving near Kennebunkport." --Robert Bryce, 11/5/00 ### FORMER OFFICER BILL BURKETT ACCUSES BUSH OF DOCTORING MILITARY RECORDS IN '99 While some voters appear to view the George W. Bush 1976 drunk driving conviction in Maine as being too far in the past, "suspicions that the son of the last president might have lied about the conviction, or used family connections to expunge it from the record, would jeopardise the credibility of his pledges, delivered in campaign rallies all over the country, to 'uphold the honour and integrity of the office' if he wins on Tuesday." On Friday the Dallas Morning News reported that in 1996 Bush had lied to a reporter about his 1976 conviction. This morning the London Sunday Times has published stories by Tom Rhodes and Matthew Campbell in which Bush is accused of doctoring his military file to have it correspond with his '99 autobiography. "A former officer in the Texas National Guard claimed Bush had doctored his military record. Bill Burkett, a former lieutenant-colonel, said Bush aides had been "scrubbing the files" to bury disparities between his record while serving as a reserve pilot during the Vietnam war and an account of the period in his official biography.... Burkett said Bush aides had visited the National Guard headquarters at Camp Mabry 'on numerous occasions' to make sure that records available to the public about his military service would tally with his autobiography's version of his time as a reserve pilot during the Vietnam war. Bush has always said he was 'discharged with honour' from the force, although it is known he was once grounded for failing to undergo a medical examination, and he reportedly went absent without leave." More information will be provided later, since the Boston Globe intends to break the story in the United States in its Sunday edition. --Politex, 11/4/00, 8:15 pm CT ### BREAKING...Air National Guard Commanding Officer Alleges Bush Military Records Cleansing A former senior commanding officer in the Air National Guard has come forward to allege that the Bush campaign actually "cleansed" the Texas Air National Guard records in order to make them conform to the official Bush biography that was being written at the time of the cleansing. He also alleges that records which would be normally released under an FOIA request for a serviceman�s public records were missing from the FOIA release and asserts that those could clear up the questions about Bush�s military career. "The critical question to me is still: If GW really completed his assigned six-year commitment, then why has his surrogate, Dan Bartlett or senior National Guard Officers of Texas not provided his pay files and his complete retirement points listing (which are the only two documents which officially provide the detailed evidence to answer the question) to prove it and clear this issue from the Campaign." More to Come 5:30 pm CT, 11/4/00 ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends ================================================================= <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! 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