“On Sunday, President Bush pledged in the Oval Office to release any and all documents related to whether he fulfilled his Vietnam-era National Guard duty.1 And yesterday, the White House claimed the documents it released fulfilled that Oval Office pledge. However, just hours after that declaration, White House communications director Dan Bartlett “confirmed that Bush’s complete personnel file is being forwarded to Washington from an archive in Denver” but only “for review”2 by the White House – not necessarily release to the public.”
