If it's veteran's affairs or if they have anything to do with this whatever, I'd say it's dirty politics from the Committee Chairman, Bob Filner, (D) CA.
Filner is an anti-war weenie from the 60s, BIO note from his bio, the connections to the ACLU, Common Cause, the Sierra Club... He has been nehind several of the dirty tricks over the past year in effort to turn the troops against the President.
One such trick, although unprovable, was the effort to turn vets and Gold Star families against Pres. Bush by denying Vietnam vets' families tours of the WH knowing full well they didn't qualify for them under the policy instituted by the Bush Admin.
See my reply at #8
Filner....bet he was the ‘go-to’ mole for CNN ‘special’ “Broken Government, Fighting the VA”, a hit piece on Walter Reed Army Hospital, the VA, veterans, etc. The only ‘fact’ you could probably draw from the piece was that the Chicago area is the worst place in the world to be a wounded veteran (gratis corrupt Dickie Durbin).