Is the AP Biased?

Posted By Blackfive

This is interesting:

Judge Orders U.S. to Find Bush Records
By MATT KELLEY, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - A federal judge has ordered the Pentagon to find and make public by next week any unreleased files about President Bush's Vietnam-era Air National Guard service to resolve a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by The Associated Press.

U.S. District Judge Harold Baer Jr. handed down the order late Wednesday in New York. The AP lawsuit already has led to the disclosure of previously unreleased flight logs from Bush's days piloting F-102A fighters and other jets.

Pentagon officials told Baer they plan to have their search complete by Monday. Baer ordered the Pentagon to hand over the records to the AP by Sept. 24 and provide a written statement by Sept. 29 detailing the search for more records.

"We're hopeful the Department of Defense will provide a full accounting of the steps it has taken, as the judge ordered, so the public can have some assurance that there are no documents being withheld," said AP lawyer David Schulz.

White House officials have said Bush ordered the Pentagon earlier this year to conduct a thorough search for the president's records, and officials allowed reporters to review everything that was gathered back in February.

Through a series of requests under the federal open records law and a subsequent suit, the AP uncovered the flight logs, which were not part of the records the White House released earlier this year.

Both Bush's and John Kerry's service records in Vietnam have become a major issue in the presidential race. New records that have surfaced in recent weeks have raised more questions...

Please read the whole thing.

Now, please correct me if I'm wrong, but there was no mention of the AP suing the Pentagon to try to get all of John Kerry's records (which we KNOW have not been fully released). Maybe they did sue and it just didn't make it into the story.

Anyone know about this?

Last, Tom Maguire at Just One Minute has been all over the Kerry records issue (and if you haven't blogrolled Tom, yet, you should now). I wouldn't have known about the misdirection from the Kerry Campaign on this issue if I hadn't been reading his blog.

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Is the AP Biased?

This is interesting:

Judge Orders U.S. to Find Bush Records
By MATT KELLEY, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - A federal judge has ordered the Pentagon to find and make public by next week any unreleased files about President Bush's Vietnam-era Air National Guard service to resolve a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by The Associated Press.

U.S. District Judge Harold Baer Jr. handed down the order late Wednesday in New York. The AP lawsuit already has led to the disclosure of previously unreleased flight logs from Bush's days piloting F-102A fighters and other jets.

Pentagon officials told Baer they plan to have their search complete by Monday. Baer ordered the Pentagon to hand over the records to the AP by Sept. 24 and provide a written statement by Sept. 29 detailing the search for more records.

"We're hopeful the Department of Defense will provide a full accounting of the steps it has taken, as the judge ordered, so the public can have some assurance that there are no documents being withheld," said AP lawyer David Schulz.

White House officials have said Bush ordered the Pentagon earlier this year to conduct a thorough search for the president's records, and officials allowed reporters to review everything that was gathered back in February.

Through a series of requests under the federal open records law and a subsequent suit, the AP uncovered the flight logs, which were not part of the records the White House released earlier this year.

Both Bush's and John Kerry's service records in Vietnam have become a major issue in the presidential race. New records that have surfaced in recent weeks have raised more questions...

Please read the whole thing.

Now, please correct me if I'm wrong, but there was no mention of the AP suing the Pentagon to try to get all of John Kerry's records (which we KNOW have not been fully released). Maybe they did sue and it just didn't make it into the story.

Anyone know about this?

Last, Tom Maguire at Just One Minute has been all over the Kerry records issue (and if you haven't blogrolled Tom, yet, you should now). I wouldn't have known about the misdirection from the Kerry Campaign on this issue if I hadn't been reading his blog.

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