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First honorable & decent thing i've seen from our MSM in many many years. This thing is just plain awful. Good Vets needlessly lost their lives. There has to be accountability.
Well, President Obama can no longer say hes waiting for the results of the investigation.
At least one investigation is done, and its devastating to the VA.
Now even John McCain is calling on Eric Shinseki to resign, and urging the Justice Department to launch a criminal probe.
The IGs investigation confirms what the Arizona Republic and CNN originally reported, that there was lying and a cover-up at the Phoenix facility.
Critics say the president follows an increasingly tired playbook: He finds out about some administration malfeasance from the media, expresses outrage, fires no one, asks for an investigation, and by the time the probe is over, the White House can promise reforms and generally treat the matter as old news.
But Wednesdays report could force Obama to speed up that timetable:
The inspector general for the Department of Veterans Affairs reported on Wednesday that at least 1,700 veterans at the agencys medical center in Phoenix were not registered on the proper waiting list to see doctors, creating a serious condition that means veterans continue to be at risk of being forgotten or lost in the convoluted scheduling process, says the New York Times.
Irregularities in how the 1,700 veterans were handled, the report said, mean that these veterans may never obtain a requested or required clinical appointment.
The average waiting time for a medical appointment for a group of patients studied was 115 days, but the Phoenix center falsely claimed it was 24 days.
More:
Media ratchet up pressure on White House as probe confirms cover-up at VA | Fox News
Well, President Obama can no longer say hes waiting for the results of the investigation.
At least one investigation is done, and its devastating to the VA.
Now even John McCain is calling on Eric Shinseki to resign, and urging the Justice Department to launch a criminal probe.
The IGs investigation confirms what the Arizona Republic and CNN originally reported, that there was lying and a cover-up at the Phoenix facility.
Critics say the president follows an increasingly tired playbook: He finds out about some administration malfeasance from the media, expresses outrage, fires no one, asks for an investigation, and by the time the probe is over, the White House can promise reforms and generally treat the matter as old news.
But Wednesdays report could force Obama to speed up that timetable:
The inspector general for the Department of Veterans Affairs reported on Wednesday that at least 1,700 veterans at the agencys medical center in Phoenix were not registered on the proper waiting list to see doctors, creating a serious condition that means veterans continue to be at risk of being forgotten or lost in the convoluted scheduling process, says the New York Times.
Irregularities in how the 1,700 veterans were handled, the report said, mean that these veterans may never obtain a requested or required clinical appointment.
The average waiting time for a medical appointment for a group of patients studied was 115 days, but the Phoenix center falsely claimed it was 24 days.
More:
Media ratchet up pressure on White House as probe confirms cover-up at VA | Fox News
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