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| Holder: No Plans at DOJ to Investigate Secret Waiting Lists and Veteran Deaths at VA. |
| 2014-05-14 |
| Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that the Department of Justice doesn't have any plans to investigate allegations that veterans placed on secret waiting lists at VA hospitals died while waiting for care. We're just too busy sending the F.B.I. to find Nigerians. "Well, obviously these reports if they're true are unacceptable, and the allegations are being taken very seriously by the administration. But I don't have any announcements at this time with regard to anything that the Justice Department is doing," Holder told reporters at a press conference. They're not actually deceased, they're just terminally unrecovered. "This is something on our radar screen at this point, but there is an investigation being done by the [VA] inspector general, and we'll see what happens as a result of that inquiry and other information that comes to light in some form or fashion," Holder added. I see. "We'll see what happens"...as opposed to making something happen. According to CNN, at least 40 veterans died while waiting for treatment at one VA hospital in Phoenix. Members of Congress have said in recent weeks that the inspector general investigation is inadequate and have called on the DOJ to launch its own investigation. An internal investigation? No sense in running a parallel civil or criminal inquiry. They were only aging veterans. "Because these cases involve individuals working in their capacity as federal employees, and these incidents have occurred at federal facilities throughout the nation, I urge you to work with the state Attorneys General in Arizona and across the country to investigate these preventable deaths thoroughly, determine appropriate criminal charges, and prosecute the offenders accordingly," Rep. Tom Rooney, a Republican of Florida, wrote in a letter to Holder on May 1. Everybody knows the Federal gov't cannot investigate Federal Unionized employees. Just ask Lois Lerner. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 However, the DOJ does have time to "Dept. Of Justice To Monitor TuesdayÂ’s Nebraska Elections For Civil Rights Violations". From the Daily Caller. |
| Posted by: Anginemble Glinetle9963 2014-05-14 21:08 |
| #7 Just think of the number of people that would have to be complicit to pull something like this off. An executive manager couldn't just wave his hands. Line personal would have to follow orders that they knew to be illegal. |
| Posted by: Squinty 2014-05-14 19:37 |
| #6 obviously these reports if they're true are unacceptable, Is it the reports that are unacceptable, Eric? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-05-14 17:05 |
| #5 Right MIGHT, he'll look the other way as much a posible, to makesure h doesn't see. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2014-05-14 15:09 |
| #4 Might? |
| Posted by: gorb 2014-05-14 12:54 |
| #3 Holder: No Plans at DOJ to Investigate Secret Waiting Lists and Veteran Deaths at VA. Of course not, you might find something. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2014-05-14 10:28 |
| #2 |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2014-05-14 08:49 |
| #1 Holder needs to be impeached |
| Posted by: 3dc 2014-05-14 08:40 |