{"id":29150,"date":"2012-03-15T13:25:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T17:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29150"},"modified":"2012-03-15T13:25:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T17:25:04","slug":"update-on-patty-murrays-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29150","title":{"rendered":"Update on Patty Murray’s letter"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finally made a call to the office of the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, and they coughed up the letters I’ve been asking for<\/a>. It seems I was wrong when I speculated that the letters didn’t exist. This is the letter that the committee received from Shinseki;<\/p>\n

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Basically it says what she told her constituent; the DoD and DVA scrubbed the records of POWs and only found two receiving benefits who hadn’t earned them, and one of them was dead already and the other they were deciding what legal actions they were taking. They said they found 647 other phonies who weren’t receiving Federal benefits, but they don’t mention whether they were receiving state benefits. I know there are at least that many with POW license plates in South Carolina and double that number in Florida and Georgia.<\/p>\n

I sat right behind Army Chief of Staff Shinseki when he lied to the Small Business Committee that he didn’t know the first load of black berets were coming from China, so I know what he’s capable of doing. If Veterans Affairs Director Shinseki testified to Congress that the sky is blue, I’d have to look outside. <\/p>\n

Anyway, despite my previous claims to the contrary, it doesn’t look like Patty Murray lied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finally made a call to the office of the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, and … Update on Patty Murray’s letter<\/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":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29150","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=29150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}