At least, that’s what the president said during his last press conference . . . .
Salon.com News | Bush’s flight from the Guard:
Unlike lawyers, journalists pay little attention to concepts like chain of custody for evidence. In the case of the president’s Guard records, whoever possessed them and had the motive and opportunity to clean them up is a critical question. When Bush left the Guard about a half year early to attend Harvard Business School, his hard-copy record was retained in a military personnel records jacket at the Austin offices of the Texas Guard. Eventually, those documents were committed to microfiche. A copy of the microfiche was then sent to the Air Reserve Personnel Center in Denver and the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis. Those records are considered private, and they cannot be released to anyone without the signature of the serviceman or woman. The White House has never indicated that Bush has signed the authorization form. And this is what prompts unending suspicion.
According to this article, we don’t know if the president has authorized the release of his full record: all we know is the bits and pieces his handlers have delivered. Since Senators McCain and Kerry have released theirs, we now know what to look for — the report on why he quit flying after absorbing a million dollars on taxpayer funded training, his pay stubs, his retirement points — all of which are missing.