I retired from the VA this past January after 30 years there plus 3 years in the Army. When Max Cleland headed the VA it went from bad to worse. He did nothing but make a public spectical of himself at every opportunity. Of course he was outdone by Clinton’s appointee, Togo West, or Zulu East as we used to call him, a paranoid of the first order who used to travel with about 9 security agents surrounding him, as if anyone outside the VA would even know who he was. The VA deserves better than Max Cleland, again.
Thats the one thing that I always found interesting about the chief of the VA. I can see the guy traveling with one secretary or exec...and maybe one bodyguard. But the truth is....99 percent of America...and even 99 percent of the retired military public wouldn’t recognize the guy or care. I feel the same about the Secretary of Commerce. The government ought to sit down and think about the costs of security and what each one of these idiots are costing the public. These new “Czar” positions? Will they require high security?