The Associated Press wonders why it had to resort to filing suits against the Pentagon and Air Force in order to obtain President Bush's military service records, especially since the White House says they've already turned them over.
AP General Counsel Dave Tomlin, told E&P [Editor & Publisher] the lawsuit is needed to get access to a portion of Bush's record that may offer more information than the paper files previously released. "The paper file may not be everything," he said. "It has been there a long while, it could conceivably be tampered with." Because the microfilm record has been in storage and "it can't be altered, that access to the microfilm would settle the matter," Tomlin added.
Meanwhile, a watchdog group called Project on Government Oversight is suing Attorney General John Ashcroft for reclassifying certain documents pertaining to a translator who says she was bribed not to disclose information about a 9/11 coverup. (Reported previously in Boing Boing here and here)
