Folks, I don’t think Susan Estrich would have been willing to know anything about the active forgery — she’s a law professor, and I’d bet getting disbarred, and potentially imprisoned as an accessory before the fact would screw up that gig big time.

On the other hand, the “time to play dirty” column — and the mysterious way that the archives have disappeared from Creator’s Syndicate — certainly suggest that she was aware that people wre about to take steps that sound, well, less than ethical. (Honestly, did she have to throw in that part about people putting together untraceable money? That was just flat stupid.)

I’d love to see someone ask her “what did you know, and when did you know it?”

In the meantime, though — Jerry, John Moore, other real military folks on this Drudge story: I just read Bush’s DD214 and other personnel file material on the USA Today site, and it appears to confirm what I thought I remembered anyway, which was that when you’re commissioned in the Air Guard, you’re also commissioned in the USAF Reserve, and that while you’re AD you’re billeted and treated as a Researve officer; there’s no distinction between a “regular Reserve” officer on AD and and Air Guard officer who is on AD.

If I’m correct, then the assertion that Bush served in the Air Force would certainly be correct for the two years or so of AD he did. No?