{"id":29101,"date":"2012-03-13T09:32:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T13:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29101"},"modified":"2012-03-13T09:32:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T13:32:54","slug":"update-on-patty-murrays-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29101","title":{"rendered":"Update on Patty Murray’s lies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeah, I’m hanging on to this like a pitbull with a chew toy. This is in reference to the post I did last week<\/a> about [Chair of the Senate’s Veteran Affairs Committee, Democrat-Washington] Patty Murray’s response to one of her constituents in Washington State. The constituent asked Murray why there are so many illegitimate recipients of VA benefits for being POWs. Murray responded that on July 7, 2009, she asked Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs Shinseki to look into the situation. Then she said that on May 14, 2010 Shinseki responded that DVA had completed a scrub of the records and had found only two such phonies.<\/p>\n

Our insurgent on Capital Hill could find no such communication from Shinseki, so he asked me to call yesterday and ask for a copy of the letter from Murray to Shinseki, July 7, 2009. And I did, I talked to a polite young man by the name of Ben and told him the story and asked that he send me a copy of the letter. He went through all of the motions, then came back on the phone and said they were having trouble locating the letter, could he take my contact information and email me a copy. So we did that.<\/p>\n

Having not heard anything, I called back this morning. Funny thing, when I called on my cell phone, which I used yesterday, my call went straight to v-mail. But when I called using a different phone, someone picked up immediately. I asked the young lady if I could speak to Ben and after leaving me on hold for a minute or so, she came back and told me that Ben was unavailable, but that she was familiar with my inquiry and that they were checking with [someone] to see if they’re allowed to share that letter with me and that they’d be getting back to me.<\/p>\n

A little bird told me that no such letter exists, and they’re just hoping that my inquiry dies on the vine, but they must not know me very well. My next stop is the Washington Post, or the Washington Times, whichever finds this story more interesting. <\/p>\n

Ben asked me for the URL of the blog twice, so; Hi, Ben.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yeah, I’m hanging on to this like a pitbull with a chew toy. This is in … Update on Patty Murray’s lies<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-sucks","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}