Bush’s Military Payroll Records Destroyed

Military payroll records stored on microfilm that could more fully document President Bush’s whereabouts during his service in the Texas Air National Guard were inadvertently destroyed, according to the Pentagon. The material included records for the first quarter of 1969 and the third quarter of 1972.

“President Bush’s payroll records for those two quarters were among the records destroyed,” wrote C.Y. Talbott, of the Pentagon’s Freedom of Information and Security Review section in response to a request by the Associated Press and others. “Searches for back-up paper copies ... were unsuccessful.”