Dave Moniz and Jim Drinkard of USA Today have this:

WASHINGTON - As Texas Gov. George W. Bush prepared to run for president in the late 1990s, top-ranking Texas National Guard officers and Bush advisers discussed ways to limit the release of potentially embarrassing details from Bush’s military records, a former senior officer of the Texas Guard said Wednesday.

A second former Texas Guard official, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, was told by a participant that commanders and Bush advisers were particularly worried about mentions in the records of arrests of Bush before he joined the National Guard in 1968, the second official said.

This second former Texas Guard official is new- the first official they’re referring to- Bill Burkett, has been dismissed by the administration as a disgruntled former guardsman with an axe to grind. I can see why the second official wants to remain anonymous.

Burkett says that the state Guard commander, Maj. Gen. Daniel James III, discussed “cleansing” Bush’s military files of embarrassing or incriminating documents in the summer of 1997. At the time, Burkett was a lieutenant colonel and a chief adviser to James. He says he was just outside James’ open office door when his boss discussed the records on a speakerphone with Joe Allbaugh, who was then Gov. Bush’s chief of staff.

Bush has since made James the national director of the Air National Guard.