{"id":46338,"date":"2014-05-09T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=46338"},"modified":"2014-05-08T12:38:04","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T16:38:04","slug":"shinseki-facing-another-subpoena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=46338","title":{"rendered":"Shinseki facing another subpoena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/05\/08\/politics\/va-shinseki\/index.html?hpt=hp_t2&#038;fb_source=message\">CNN<\/a> reports that Congress is contemplating a subpoena summoning Secretary Eric Shinseki to explain to them the failures of his department in regards to their treatment of veterans, you know their whole raison d&#8217;\u00eatre; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Shinseki subpoena will cover e-mails that allegedly discussed the destruction of a secret list, first reported by CNN, of veterans waiting for care at a Phoenix VA hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The panel agreed to issue the subpoena in a voice vote Thursday morning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shinseki is accustomed to Congressional subpoenas. The first time I saw him in person was when I sat behind him while he explained why he bought the first load of berets from China to the House Small Business Committee when they threatened to subpoena his ass.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, at the White House, they&#8217;re circling the wagons around him;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The President remains confident in Secretary Shinseki&#8217;s ability to lead the department and take appropriate action,&#8221; Carney said, repeating the White House response this week to two veterans groups&#8217; calls for Shinseki&#8217;s ouster.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t what there is about him that gives the president any confidence in his abilities because he hasn&#8217;t demonstrated a measure of ability to lead anything. He&#8217;s an incompetent boob.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to ANCCPT for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN reports that Congress is contemplating a subpoena summoning Secretary Eric Shinseki to explain to them &hellip; <a title=\"Shinseki facing another subpoena\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=46338\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shinseki facing another subpoena<\/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-46338","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\/46338","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=46338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}