A retired lieutenant colonel in the Texas National Guard has come forward to claim that portions of President Bush’s military record were thrown away in 1997 after a top Bush aide asked the head of the Texas National Guard to remove embarrassing items from his file. Lt. Col. Bill Burkett first made this charge in 1998 in a letter to his Congressman. This week he told reporters that Joe Allbaugh, who ran Bush’s 2000 president campaign, made the request to Lt. Gen. Daniel James who was the adjutant general of the Texas Air National Guard. Both Allbaugh and James have denied the charge. James now serves as the head of the Air National Guard, a position he was appointed to by Bush. Alllbaugh would go on to head FEMA and he is now a top Washington lobbyist. Meanwhile the White House continued Wednesday to release new documents from Bush’s military record in an attempt to prove the president served out his full duty in the National Guard. Reporters received records from a trip to the dentist Bush made while serving in the Alabama National Guard. According to the Washington Post, the document is the first evidence Bush spent time at an Alabama base but it doesn’t clarify if Bush fulfilled his full term. Meanwhile USA Today is reporting that the portions of Bush’s recently released military records pertaining to past arrests and convictions are blacked out from the recently released documents. Bush’s military record also came up during Secretary of State Colin’s Powell’s visit to Capitol Hill.