From the Pres. Reagan archives
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/a…..v1984.html

Date5/30/1984
Control Number06270-4T-W297-G59c
Tape NumberG59
TitleTrip to Colorado. President Reagan Presents CINC Trophy to Cadets First Class Marty Louthan, Michael Kirby, JOHN KERSHNER [my emphasis]. Falcon Stadium USAF Academy
Time Counter Reading23:38-26:09
Sound TypeSD
Personal ReferencePresident Reagan, Marty Louthan, Michael Kirby, JOHN KERSHNER [my emphasis]
Geographic ReferenceColorado Springs, Colorado
Access RestrictionsNone
Date5/30/1984
Control Number06270-4T-W297-G59d
Tape NumberG59
TitleTrip to Colorado. President Reagan is given Jersey. Falcon Stadium USAF Academy

I don’t know the answer to your question. In that article I linked to, they said the back up tapes were not yet completed when they had to evacuate the building. One person John Q. Kershner, senior vice president of River Oaks Bank was allowed into the bank after the fire to complete the back up data of the previous day’s transctions ’by hand.’ The new computer system required some sort of instructions to be entered by a human in order to finalize transactions. He is described as a somewhat brave hero, having to undergo a physical exam before donning an anti-asbestos suit and entering the building.
â€Kershner was selected. At 6 p.m. he entered the building and by 10:30 p.m. had completed the task.â€
The article does not say whether information was lost in the fire nor did it speculate whether by having one person in the room, information could or could not be altered.

The committee’s major and minority counsel both seemed quick redirect every time Simpson grabbed the mike and began to run with the blurb about Bush Sr’s bank. Grab that mike! Stop her!

#1 I don’t believe it. #2 It’s too complicated. #3 I don’t believe it. #4 Don’t waste time reading closely and developing an undestanding of the essential part of the story that has not yet been explicitly explained. #5 Don’t believe it. #6 Don’t vet your analysis and pov or solicit feedback from commentors with subject matter experience, it’s too complicated and I don’t believe it. #7 Nothing is important except the things that are important to me.

Certainly nothing to prosecute as long as people remember to say â€Well I am not really sure about that…, but it might have or might not have happened…†in sworn testimony. The Fitzgerald Lesson will be long remembered.

Rileys–>Canary–>Rove–>Bush–>(Gonzo?)–>PIN–>Judge/Prosecutors–>Siegelman

from Disaster Recovery Journal
http://www.drj.com/drworld/content/w1_124.htm

Thursday, June 6, 1991, was a normal banking day at the River Oaks Bank in Houston, Texas, until 7:30 that evening when fire alarms sounded.
The shrieking alarms forced employees from the building and company officials into a disaster recovery mode — even though the company’s disaster recovery and business continuity plan wasn’t fully operational at the time and had never been tested.
“We had just converted to our current system (IBM AS-400) in November, 1990,†explained John Q. Kershner, senior vice president of River Oaks Bank. “We were scheduled to do a test of our disaster recovery facility in July. Instead, we got to do our test early — in a live mode.â€

Scandal porn, indeed. It looks damning for the prosecution and for BushCo if the Rove ties are proved. Politicization of the DoJ and the ‘criminalization of politics,’ as the Republicans like to call it, are all rolled into one.

Off topic: I was side tracked by something in Simpson’s testimony.

Does George H. W. Bush own a bank? (River Oaks Bank & Trust in Houston). Is this common knowledge?

Simpson mentions it twice in her interview. Each time Bush’s bank comes up, the committee cuts her off. The timing could be just a coincidence. Simpson is quite a rambler–for a lawyer, it seems.

Nonetheless, here are the two occurrences in the transcript. Curious to hear what you think:

From PAGES 7 and 8
A= witness (Dana) Jill Simpson
Q= Mr. Broderick-Sokol, Majority Counsel

A Okay. I guess I would start around 1979 or ’80. My
sister worked at George Bush Senior’s bank in Houston at the

(page break)

River Oaks Bank & Trust and so she recruited me to help. I
mean — and I don’t know how much help, I mean, but I handed out stuff, put up signs and –

Q And I was raising my hand. That’s why the witness
stopped.

Just to jump in, just to really run through the
campaigns. That would probably do it I think.

Then again:

Page 92-93
A Oh, I want to tell you it has been very stressful,
and it’s been difficult for my family. People have
challenged that we’re Republicans. My mother was on some
kind of business council at some point where the President
would invite people, you know, to come up for dinners and
stuff like that, and she never came, but she got — you
know, she always got the invitations and all that, and
people have said, you know, â€Jo,†they say, â€you’re not a
good Republican.†I mean she had all kinds of awards in her
office, when she was an accountant, from Tom DeLay, and I
mean — and when I say â€awards,†you know, plaques and stuff because Mr. DeLay sent out a lot of that kind of stuff, and so she — it’s caused her a lot of embarrassment.

My sister, she — she loves the Bushes, I mean, and
always has. I mean she worked for Mr. Bush before he –

Ms. Lynch (Minority Counsel, Crime Subcommittee): I think we’ve reached the point where the question is answered here.

The Witness: — at River Oaks Bank and Trust, so –

Mr. Broderick-Sokol: Okay. I think I just –
The Witness. — and that’s been hard on her, too.

(page break)

Mr. Broderick-Sokol. Okay.

The Witness. So, yes, it’s been hard on my whole
family.

Mr. Broderick-Sokol. Okay. With that, I’m done.
Why don’t we go off the record.

This stench must be connected to Abramoff by more than one pathway. (IIRC, Scott Horton wrote about connections between Siegelman’s prosecution and Abramoff’s ’fundraising’ a day or so ago, but it was only a preliminary sketch.) I’d love to see a diagram showing the multiple connections between Abramoff/gambling $$, and RNC contributors, the Siegelman investigation, and the USAG firings. Bet it has a fairly dense pattern of interconnectedness.