“Retired National Guard Lt. Col. Bill Burkett said Tuesday that in 1997, then-Gov. Bush’s chief of staff, Joe Allbaugh, told the National Guard chief to get the Bush file and make certain ‘there’s not anything there that will embarrass the governor.’

Col. Burkett said that a few days later at Camp Mabry in Austin, he saw Mr. Bush’s file and documents from it discarded in a trash can. He said he recognized the documents as retirement point summaries and pay forms.” —Dallas Morning News