{"id":48281,"date":"2014-05-21T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=48281"},"modified":"2014-05-21T06:31:06","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T10:31:06","slug":"so-much-for-we-didnt-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=48281","title":{"rendered":"So Much For “We Didn’t Know”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The more that comes to light, the more it’s apparent that senior officials in the VA years ago knew damn well that games were being played with patient scheduling.<\/p>\n

Why?\u00a0 Because as this Army Times<\/em> article states<\/a>, in April 2010, the VA’s Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Operations and Management, William Schoenhard, wrote a memo to regional directors “calling for ‘immediate action’ to review scheduling practices to eliminate \u201cinappropriate\u201d strategies.”\u00a0 He wouldn’t have done that had senior VA leadership been clueless regarding the problem.<\/p>\n

This means that senior VA leadership knew about the problem at least 4 years ago<\/span>.\u00a0 Dunno about you, but 4 years seems like long enough to get that one problem fixed.<\/p>\n

Shinseki claims he “had not seen” the memo in question.\u00a0 While that may be technically true, I bluntly do not believe he was ignorant of the problem.<\/p>\n

Robert Petzel, the VA’s designated scapegoat in the matter, has indicated he was aware of the memo.\u00a0 Maybe that’s why he ended up being the designated scapegoat – lack of “plausible deniability”.<\/p>\n

Time to uphold the bushido<\/em> code of your ancestors, Shinseki.\u00a0 As well as to display the honorable conducted expected from a former US military officer.<\/p>\n

It’s time for you to resign. Now.<\/p>\n

Oh, and to anyone who may have falsely told investigators they were unaware of the problem, I have some free advice.\u00a0 You really might want to “lawyer up”.<\/p>\n

Because as I’ve said before:\u00a0 it wasn’t the break-in that ended up putting many of those involved in Watergate in jail. It was their participation in the cover-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The more that comes to light, the more it’s apparent that senior officials in the VA years ago knew damn well that games were being played with patient scheduling. Why?\u00a0 Because as this Army Times article states, in April 2010, the VA’s Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Operations and Management, William Schoenhard, wrote a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,86,118,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal","category-veteran-health-care","category-veterans-issues","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-cyJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}