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Posted on 5/16/14 at 1:41 pm to The Spleen
Posted on 5/16/14 at 1:41 pm to The Spleen
Why not hold the President's appointee and his staff responsible? And the President himself?
Blumenthal asks why Shinseki hasn't notified FBI of poss. criminal activity by VA records falsifiers. Shinseki hems & haws.
"I don't know what data is being assembled" for VA review.
Shinseki sez 3,000 VA workers "involuntary removed" for misconduct...but some reassigned or retired.
VA undersecretary Petzel hesitates & says "he doesn't know if it would be appropriate" to remove employees who falsify data.
When Shinseki says Deputy Chief of Staff Nabors & family are longtime friends, I wonder where the impartiality lays?
Shinseki "not aware" of book-cooking, "can't remember" getting fall 2013 OSC/OMC reports on VA ghost clinics, double-booking schemes.
eta- notice the problems, deaths and secret lists, PREDATE what you linked?
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VA medical centers defied some agency policies on supplying opiates to veterans in 2012, including simultaneously prescribing thousands of ex-troops with narcotic painkillers and psychoactive drugs -– a combination that’s been linked to lethal overdoses, a new audit shows
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Among the VA’s “take-home opioid patients,” 7,426 died in fiscal year 2012
Blumenthal asks why Shinseki hasn't notified FBI of poss. criminal activity by VA records falsifiers. Shinseki hems & haws.
"I don't know what data is being assembled" for VA review.
Shinseki sez 3,000 VA workers "involuntary removed" for misconduct...but some reassigned or retired.
VA undersecretary Petzel hesitates & says "he doesn't know if it would be appropriate" to remove employees who falsify data.
When Shinseki says Deputy Chief of Staff Nabors & family are longtime friends, I wonder where the impartiality lays?
Shinseki "not aware" of book-cooking, "can't remember" getting fall 2013 OSC/OMC reports on VA ghost clinics, double-booking schemes.
eta- notice the problems, deaths and secret lists, PREDATE what you linked?
This post was edited on 5/16/14 at 1:44 pm
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Posted on 5/16/14 at 1:48 pm to Alahunter
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Why not hold the President's appointee and his staff responsible? And the President himself?
I hold anyone and everyone that is responsible accountable.
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notice the problems, deaths and secret lists, PREDATE what you linked?
Of course it does, and that's the point. The problems in the VA have been festering for quote some time. The bill in the Senate in February aimed to address some of those issues, but the Republicans(save for 2 of them in the Senate) decided election year politics was more important.
This isn't about not holding anyone accountable. This is about not falling for the BS the Republicans are about to roll out in the coming weeks on your TV.
Posted on 5/16/14 at 3:30 pm to Alahunter
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Why not hold the President's appointee and his staff responsible? And the President himself?
Because that'd be overkill. What in the flying frick to you think Obama has to do with any of this? Do you think he himself can monitor the goings on of hundreds of thousands of federal employees?
Those who are directly in charge of particular programs or VA hospitals will probably be fired after a proper investigation if these allegations are proven true. That's appropriate.
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