{"id":50610,"date":"2014-06-12T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=50610"},"modified":"2014-06-11T16:59:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T20:59:11","slug":"fbi-to-investigate-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=50610","title":{"rendered":"FBI to investigate VA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/jun\/11\/fbi-opens-criminal-probe-va-after-scandal\/\">The Washington Times<\/a> reports that FBI Director James Comey told a Congressional panel that his agency will be opening an investigation of the Department of Veterans&#8217; Affairs given the initial reports from the VA&#8217;s Office of the Inspector General regarding the thousands of veterans who weren&#8217;t served by the hospital in Phoenix and the possibility that scores had died as a result;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He did not elaborate on the investigation, but a U.S. law enforcement official said earlier in the day that the Justice Department had formally asked the FBI to assist in reviewing materials provided by the inspector general\u2019s office. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss an ongoing criminal investigation on the record.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess all of the horses are out now, so they come in and close the barn door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reports that FBI Director James Comey told a Congressional panel that his agency &hellip; <a title=\"FBI to investigate VA\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=50610\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FBI to investigate VA<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50610","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=50610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}