{"id":46821,"date":"2014-05-12T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=46821"},"modified":"2014-05-11T18:46:57","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T22:46:57","slug":"hagel-administration-missed-warning-signs-in-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=46821","title":{"rendered":"Hagel: Administration missed warning signs in VA"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the Washington Times<\/a>, on ABC’s This Week, Sunday, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel admitted that the Obama Administration (and preceding administrations) missed warning signs of the impending malfeasance at the Department of Veterans’ Affairs – probably the closest any member of that cabinet has come to admitting that there’s a problem. But, you know, its Bush’s fault, too. <\/p>\n

\u201cI do support General Shinseki, but there\u2019s no margin here. If this, in fact, or any variation of this occurred, all the way along the chain, accountability is going to have to be upheld here because we can never let this kind of outrage \u2014 if all of this is true \u2014 stand in this country,\u201d Mr. Hagel said on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week\u201d on Sunday. \u201cI don\u2019t think it just started with General Shinseki\u2019s term at the VA. This is something that should have been looked at years and years ago. So, yes, we missed it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, there’s no evidence that the gross malfeasance we’ve seen splashed across headlines over the last five years happened before Shinseki began his reign of terror against veterans and the taxpayers. But, you know, Hagel has waged a war against Republicans since he found the political value in it, so….<\/p>\n

However this is still a good sign. Presidents always send a canary into the coalmine to test the political atmosphere. If there is no uproar from the Left about Hagel’s remarks, they may end up ridding themselves of Shinseki. The problem, then, is what nincompoop will they bring in to replace him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to the Washington Times, on ABC’s This Week, Sunday, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel admitted that … Hagel: Administration missed warning signs in VA<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46821","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=46821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}