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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nLast month, I wrote<\/a> about the Veterans’ Affairs Department Office of the Inspector General’s report after I actually read the thing, and not the media’s translation which benefited the President’s speech to the American Legion Convention on the day of the report’s release. The media told us that the report said that no veternas’ deaths were caused by the delay of their care in Phoenix, but the report stated otherwise. Now, CBS has noticed it<\/a>, too;<\/p>\n Two of the doctors who first blew the whistle on the veterans’ deaths in Phoenix say the inspector general botched the investigation and went too easy on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).<\/p>\n One says the IG engaged in a whitewash of what happened there, bowing to pressure from inside the agency, reports CBS News correspondent Wyatt Andrews.<\/p>\n The issue surrounds the investigation into whether more than 40 veterans at the Phoenix VA died while waiting to see the doctor. The IG’s final report in August concluded that it “[could not] conclusively assert” that long wait times “caused the deaths of these veterans.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n Yeah, that number looks like it’s actually 293 veterans who died, not necessarily from waiting for treatment, but it proves that the IG report was flawed in the research. <\/p>\n Our source, who works at VA headquarters and who spoke exclusively to CBS News, said officials inside the agency asked for a revision of the first draft. That’s standard practice, but in this case the source said it amounted to pressure on Inspector General Richard Griffin to add a line to water down the report.<\/p>\n “The organization was worried that the report was going to damn the organization,” the whistle-blower said. “And therefore it was important for them to introduce language that softened that blow.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Of course, we knew it was flawed and watered down because we actually read the report, instead of just taking the media’s word for it.<\/p>\n Thanks to one of our ninjas for the link.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"