Tonight at 8:00 p.m. EDT\/PDT CBS\u2019s \u201c60 Minutes\u201d will interview Ben Barnes, the former lieutenant governor of Texas who says he now regrets that, at the urging of the Bush family, he pulled strings to get George W. Bush a coveted spot in the \u201cChampaign Unit\u201d of the Texas National Guard. The unit was so named because of the many sons of the privileged who were in it. Other reports suggest tonight\u2019s program may go into other discrepancies, inconsistencies and lies in the Bush family\u2019s story of W\u2019s Vietnam era service \u2013 or lack thereof.<\/p>\n
The Associated Press has been running stories<\/a> recently about the inconsistencies and lack of documentation of Bush\u2019s service after it obtained new records \u2013 records the Bush administration previously said it couldn\u2019t find — in the last few days.<\/p>\n The Boston Globe has uncovered additional information<\/a> that casts doubt on Bush\u2019s service.<\/p>\n I urge you to take the time to watch tonight\u2019s \u201c60 Minutes.\u201d Can we trust a man who lied to get us into a war where now 1,000 troops have died and apparently lied about his military service?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tonight at 8:00 p.m. EDT\/PDT CBS\u2019s \u201c60 Minutes\u201d will interview Ben Barnes, the former lieutenant governor of Texas who says he now regrets that, at the urging of the Bush family, he pulled strings to get George W. Bush a coveted spot in the \u201cChampaign Unit\u201d of the Texas National Guard. The unit was so… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}