{"id":56235,"date":"2014-11-05T08:01:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T13:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56235"},"modified":"2014-11-05T08:07:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T13:07:33","slug":"va-secretary-interceded-in-ig-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56235","title":{"rendered":"VA secretary interceded in IG report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54796\">We called BS<\/a> on the media&#8217;s reportage in regards to the Veterans&#8217; Affairs Office of the Inspector General&#8217;s investigation into the charge that veterans had died awaiting care in Phoenix. It turns out that the interim secretary of the Department, Sloan Gibson, asked the VAOIG to &#8220;soften&#8221; their report according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/article\/20141103\/NEWS\/311030027\/E-mails-VA-secretary-sought-changes-Phoenix-report\">Army Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to newly released documents, the report was amended to add a finding that there was no conclusive evidence that delays in care resulted in veteran deaths.<\/p>\n<p>In recent congressional testimony, acting VA Inspector General Richard Griffin adamantly denied that changes in the final report, which downplayed links between delayed care and up to 40 veteran deaths, had been &#8220;dictated&#8221; by VA headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>But e-mails released Friday by the House Committee on Veterans&#8217; Affairs show that Sloan Gibson, who had been acting VA secretary, personally corresponded with Griffin in early August, asking him to amend the report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You might remember that the day the report was released to the media, the President was speaking to the American Legion and making more bullshit promises about caring for veterans. But, I suppose that had nothing to do with the urgency to mislead the media.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We called BS on the media&#8217;s reportage in regards to the Veterans&#8217; Affairs Office of the &hellip; <a title=\"VA secretary interceded in IG report\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56235\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VA secretary interceded in IG report<\/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":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56235","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\/56235","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=56235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56235\/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=56235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}