FDL:
There’s one other avenue that I’d like to see Rather’s attorneys pursue, if feasible: Bush’s W-2 records. An anonymous source points out that “[b]y dividing his total wages by his rate of pay at the time [a known quantity], we would finally know how many hours [Bush] worked in the Guard.”
So, Rather should subpoena Bush’s W-2s!
Assuming that those hours weren’t falsified, and that W-2s are subpoenable (a quick search suggests they are), this would be a simple, elegant way to prove whether Dubya actually fulfilled his obligations in the Alabama ANG, and therefore whether that aspect of Rather’s story was accurate. They might also come in handy if Rather wants to pursue the scrubbing rumors - there could be intriguing discrepancies between the W-2s and the ANG records.
A simple arithmetical process, eh?
You’d think the Republicans would want to do their best to finally put this rumor behind them.
After all, the fact that nobody actually saw Bush for a year doesn’t mean he wasn’t doing his job. Let’s be reaonable, here, people.
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You must be smoking crack.
You must be smoking crack. W-2’s do not show hours, they show wages. And even if they did show hours (which they do not), this would not prove anything. Therefore, you are smoking crack.
Oh my sweet savior's mother on a hambone cracker, lambert,
has not this been done already with his TANG pay records??
Yes, by Paul Lukasiak
Readers new to this issue should go here.
But not by Dan Rather, against CBS, with a subpoena, in a civil suit!
And a distinction: IIRC Was Lukasiak looked at was the computerized payroll records. Not the same thing as the actual W-2s, eh? (Which, if they turned out to be falsifed, would create some problems for the filer, n’est c’est pas?
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>An anonymous source points
>An anonymous source points out that “[b]y dividing his total wages by his rate of pay at the time [a known quantity], we would finally know how many hours [Bush] worked in the Guard.”
Where in this sentence do you see anything regarding hours? The hours are the end result of the equation stated above, not a variable.
stalking the swampland
Lukasiak has been busy sloshing around the Swampland beating the crap out of Joe Klein lately.
Careful Josh, you’ll get him upset and he’ll poke his own eye out with a cheeto.
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