Posted on 05/05/2015 6:36:05 AM PDT by pabianice
WASHINGTON — As subpoenas fly, the cordial correspondence between lawmakers and VA Secretary Bob McDonald is turning ugly.
A letter that House Committee on Veterans Affairs Chairman Jeff Miller, R-Fla., sent to McDonald on Friday and obtained by Stars and Stripes starts with a reminder of what happened to the secretary’s predecessor, Eric Shinseki.
“This committee exposed the Department’s delays-in-care scandal at an April 9, 2014, congressional hearing, setting in motion a sequence of events that essentially forced the resignation of your predecessor and led to you becoming secretary,” Miller writes in response to a McDonald letter protesting a threat to subpoena records related to the Philadelphia VA Regional Office.
On Thursday, the committee members voted without objection to issue the subpoena. That came one day after Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., subpoenaed documents from an investigation into the Tomah (Wisconsin) VA Medical Center that the VA’s inspector general has long refused to release.
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Three years, and the VA can’t correct a clerical error.
No Doctors or exams needed.
A clerk looks at one record in the file and makes a change.
They can’t get it done in three years.
And when you ask them to correct it, they try to guilt-trip you that the five minutes it would take some clerk to fix this is going to cause somebody to bleed to death in a hospital.
What a crock.
McDonald is as big a flop as any other cabinet member, military service and executive experience not withstanding. The bureaucracy cannot be tamed. It must be dismantled.
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