{"id":56673,"date":"2014-11-25T10:30:15","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T15:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56673"},"modified":"2014-11-25T10:30:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T15:30:15","slug":"the-pow-liars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56673","title":{"rendered":"The POW liars"},"content":{"rendered":"

The piece we did yesterday on POW pretender Bob Curtis<\/a> reminds me that we need to repeat this story about the Veterans’ Affairs Department and their inability to weed out phony POWs from their ranks. I talked to the reporter who wrote the article that we linked to at the Lebanon Democrat<\/a> last night and he went back to Mr. Curtis and asked him about the concerns that we raised about his tales. Curtis flashed him a VA ID card that identified Curtis as a POW. This morning, Mary sends us an article from USAToday<\/a> from 2009;<\/p>\n

There are only 21 surviving POWs from the first Gulf War in 1991, the Department of Defense says. Yet the Department of Veterans Affairs is paying disability benefits to 286 service members it says were taken prisoner during that conflict, according to data released by VA to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

A similar discrepancy arises with Vietnam POWs. Only 661 officially recognized prisoners returned from that war alive — and about 100 of those have since died, according to Defense figures. But 966 purported Vietnam POWs are getting disability payments, the VA told AP.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Back in 2012, Senator Patty Murray, who was the chair of the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs asked incompetent boob Ric Shinseki to rectify this problem. We asked the Senate Committee send us the response from Shinseki<\/a> to the Senators. Shinseki told the committee that they had found only two phony POWs and one had died. Well, we already know how dependable Shinseki was on questions of accounting.<\/p>\n

Well, we went to real POW to ask about VA’s documentation, Navy Captain Mike McGrath, who was held for nearly six years by the Vietnamese;<\/p>\n

My own VA card has these words on it, just below the picture: “VA HEALTHCARE ENROLLEE SERVICE CONNECTED PURPLE HEART FORMER POW.” If Mr. Curtis has similar words on his VA card identifying himself as a former POW, then that means he has submitted fraudulent documentation (signed) and testimony to the VA to gain that status. In that case, he has committed fraud, Title 18. If this is the case, this matter should be presented to the VA Office of the Inspector General for investigation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now that Shinseki is gone, the VA needs to make this thing right with our POWs. There was a bill in Congress that just sat in committee through this Congress – HR 5172; The POW Accountability Act<\/a> – to force the VA to bounce their rosters of POWs against the DoD’s DPMO records. That bill needs to be revived in this Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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