This is how it’s done!
Lyi’n Lizzy will be on the warpath.
Joseph McCarthy was correct....way back when, Read Venona
"Only in 1995 did the United States government officially reveal the existence of the super-secret Venona Project. For nearly fifty years American intelligence agents had been decoding thousands of Soviet messages, uncovering an enormous range of espionage activities carried out against the United States during World War II by its own allies. So sensitive was the project in its early years that even President Truman was not informed of its existence. This extraordinary book is the first to examine the Venona messages—documents of unparalleled importance for our understanding of the history and politics of the Stalin era and the early Cold War years."
Robert Oppenheimer may even have been a Soviet informer himself by way of his UK buddy, Klaus Fuchs
"Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988) was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who, in 1950, was convicted of supplying information from the American, British, and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War. While at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Fuchs was responsible for many significant theoretical calculations relating to the first nuclear weapons, and later, early models of the hydrogen bomb."
I could never understand why there weren’t criminal indictments of VA officials who falsified patient waiting list records to get big bonuses. That would be criminal in my book.
Abount 100,000 more firings to go and the VA may start to be cleaned up.
This is good... but the incentives still need to be switched so our vets are in the position of ‘valued customer’ rather than ‘charity case’.
When the financial incentives are switched the problems will solve themselves.
“In accordance with federal law, criminal prosecution or conviction for off-duty misconduct does not automatically disqualify an individual from federal employment,” Shulkin said. “As is true in private-sector employment, a federal employee generally cannot be terminated for off-duty misconduct unless there is a clear connection between the misconduct and the individual’s employment.”
Oh really? So if I go out, get drunk and kill someone while driving intoxicated, then get convicted of that crime, I won’t lose my job in the private sector?
You really think that Mr. Shulkin? If so, this is just further evidence of how deep the delusion reaches into those in charge at the VA and indeed all government employees.
I don’t know what Trump was thinking appointing this guy. Hopefully he knows something more than we do (like how to effectively “convince” him to do Trump’s bidding). Because he doesn’t seem like an effective ally in the battle to drain the swamp to me.