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Posted on 5/16/14 at 3:02 pm to The Spleen
Posted on 5/16/14 at 3:02 pm to The Spleen
So, uh, cliffs anyone?
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Posted on 5/16/14 at 3:05 pm to PrivatePublic
On this thread or the VA scandal?
This thread:
Spleen - It's the Republicans' fault after the fact.
On the scandal, not really cliffs but..
Shinseki told the Senate panel he “can’t remember” getting warnings from federal watchdogs last fall about ghost clinics and double-scheduling schemes. He said he was “not aware” of explosive book-cooking allegations like the ones at a Fort Collins, Colo., VA facility, where employees were ordered to make their records show that veterans got appointments within 14 days of the day requested, whether or not it was true.
In response to bipartisan disgust with the VA’s serial incompetence and fatally long wait times, oblivious Shinseki blathered about “customer satisfaction surveys.” And when it came time to deliver his calculated sound bite about being “mad as hell” at mounting allegations of criminal fraud and neglect, Shinseki’s perfunctory tone echoed a jaded 411 operator: “City and state, please?”
Asked whether VA employees who alter records should be fired, Shinseki’s deputy Robert Petzel said he didn’t know “whether that’s the appropriate level of punishment.” Shinseki interjected that a whopping 3,000 VA workers, including senior managers, had been “involuntarily removed” for misconduct last year — only to admit that an unknown number of those had simply been reassigned or allowed to retire.
In true paper-pusher form, the VA’s top brass have ordered yet another study to assess how and why the VA ignored years of other studies, reports and audits of the department’s waste, fraud and abuse. Showing even more tone-deafness, Shinseki bragged openly about his close friendship with top White House aide Rob Nabors, who is now overseeing the kabuki “review” of his department’s failures.
Pressed on why he hadn’t reported illegal data falsification to the FBI, Shinseki demurred that it was the inspector general’s call, not his.
In other words: The buck stops somewhere else.
Attorney General Eric Holder hid behind the VA inspector general, too. There are no plans for a DoJ probe into the secret waiting lists at the Phoenix VA hospital, where scores of sick vets languished for months before perishing.
This thread:
Spleen - It's the Republicans' fault after the fact.
On the scandal, not really cliffs but..
Shinseki told the Senate panel he “can’t remember” getting warnings from federal watchdogs last fall about ghost clinics and double-scheduling schemes. He said he was “not aware” of explosive book-cooking allegations like the ones at a Fort Collins, Colo., VA facility, where employees were ordered to make their records show that veterans got appointments within 14 days of the day requested, whether or not it was true.
In response to bipartisan disgust with the VA’s serial incompetence and fatally long wait times, oblivious Shinseki blathered about “customer satisfaction surveys.” And when it came time to deliver his calculated sound bite about being “mad as hell” at mounting allegations of criminal fraud and neglect, Shinseki’s perfunctory tone echoed a jaded 411 operator: “City and state, please?”
Asked whether VA employees who alter records should be fired, Shinseki’s deputy Robert Petzel said he didn’t know “whether that’s the appropriate level of punishment.” Shinseki interjected that a whopping 3,000 VA workers, including senior managers, had been “involuntarily removed” for misconduct last year — only to admit that an unknown number of those had simply been reassigned or allowed to retire.
In true paper-pusher form, the VA’s top brass have ordered yet another study to assess how and why the VA ignored years of other studies, reports and audits of the department’s waste, fraud and abuse. Showing even more tone-deafness, Shinseki bragged openly about his close friendship with top White House aide Rob Nabors, who is now overseeing the kabuki “review” of his department’s failures.
Pressed on why he hadn’t reported illegal data falsification to the FBI, Shinseki demurred that it was the inspector general’s call, not his.
In other words: The buck stops somewhere else.
Attorney General Eric Holder hid behind the VA inspector general, too. There are no plans for a DoJ probe into the secret waiting lists at the Phoenix VA hospital, where scores of sick vets languished for months before perishing.
Posted on 5/16/14 at 3:06 pm to PrivatePublic
Republicans are pompous asshats even when they're right. And if they're right, frick them.
Posted on 5/16/14 at 3:07 pm to PrivatePublic
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So, uh, cliffs anyone?
War mongering Republicans are pieces of shite.
BTW, if anyone wants to think my outrage is "faux" or irrational, a close family friend has been dealing with BS from the VA since he came back from Iraq in 2006.
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