Posted on 02/27/2017 6:44:21 PM PST by george76
The new interim chief of staff for the Department of Veterans Affairs reportedly ordered employees in 2014 not to disclose information about secret wait lists to members of Congress.
The VA released a statement Friday listing Vivieca Wright-Simpson as the interim chief of staff effective Sunday.
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Wright-Simpson was instrumental in blocking an investigation initiated by two Pennsylvanian congressmen, who wanted to know more about veterans waiting years for health care appointments at the Pittsburgh VA.
According to a 2014 report by CNN, GOP Rep. Tim Murphy and Democratic Rep. Mike Doyle felt like the VA was running interference to prevent them from getting answers to their queries on wait lists.
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Then-chairman of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs Rep. Jeff Miller blasted the VA for trying to hide suppress the wait list investigation.
“Interfering with Congress’ constitutionally mandated oversight responsibility is not just wrong, it’s against the law,” Miller said. “Right now acting VA Secretary Sloan Gibson needs to immediately send a clear and powerful message that criminal behavior will not be tolerated within VA’s ranks. The only way to do this is by immediately firing anyone who directed VA officials not to speak with members of Congress.”
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Part of the reason members of Congress were likely suspicious about VA assurances is because the Pittsburgh VA had suffered from outbreaks of Legionnaire’s Disease in the past in 2011 and 2012, which resulted in the deaths of at least six veterans. The VA did not warn patients about the prospect of Legionnaire’s Disease, despite knowing for more than a year that it had an outbreak on its hands. Although VA officials tried to tell members of Congress that the issue was equipment-related, internal memos and emails reported on by CBS revealed that employees knew human error was responsible.
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Sur-prise, sur-prise. Sick.
No surprise here. I’ve been in levels of Civil Service management in the past and “know the drill.”
It is S.O.P (Standard Operating Procedure) NEVER to disclose anything to any type of investigative questions. You do...and you will pay dearly for telling the truth.
That’s why I left the government many years ago. I could no longer live with myself as a “slave” of upper management and to be forced to lie upon any investigative question no matter what. I now have been self employed since 1979.
Never trust a woman with a hyphenated last name.
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Just as I suspected. She’s Amish.
Seem to remember Lewis Grizzard once offered that advice.
In that case, God bless you, Lewis.
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ANYTHING based or concluded on that premise is lost in the fog. Right where they want you.
She has bee fired, right?
The new head of V A is NOT a vet. Don’t know much about him, but I heard he was an appointee of obama (or soetoro or whatever his real name is). Don’t much care for that idea, either.
She was appointed Oct 5, 2015
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