So, the Veterans Administration was off bugging people. …As in, monitoring their communications.

Remember: the Veterans Administration was held up as a shining beacon by the Left on how to do socialized medicine.  Or should I say ‘Socialist?’ – Because this story is certainly, ah, evocative:

As the hearing stretched into the night, [House Veterans Affairs Chairman Jeff] Miller told the committee about a visit some committee staff took to the Philadelphia Regional Office earlier this month. As several committee aides were preparing to meet with officials July 2, one aide visited the restroom. In the restroom, the committee aide found a notebook that belonged to Acting Regional Director Diana Rubens,  apparently directing an official preparing for the briefing to ignore a certain committee aide’s questions. The notes also listed the names of two whistleblowers the committee had been in communication with as well as the names of committee investigators.

Rubens, who claimed that her comments on the notebook were taken out of context, and that she simply wrote the names down when they were mentioned to her.

The committee investigators were directed to a workspace at the regional office which was outfitted with cameras and microphones. Upon discovering they were being monitored, the aides requested to be moved.

Ah, yes. Writing down names of wreckers and saboteurs, and spying on investigators.  Truly, this is a glorious era of good and transparent government that Barack Obama has given us.  But do you know what the VA really needs?  That’s right: A Five-Year Plan. And maybe a work camp or two? – Well, maybe that’s a little unfair.

Barely.

Via Instapundit.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

8 thoughts on “So, the Veterans Administration was off bugging people. …As in, monitoring their communications.”

  1. Bulldoze it. Bulldoze it all, put the VA brass’ pension checks and GS ratings in the rubble, burn it, bulldoze it again, then let anyone who served with distinction, or their families, or their friends, pee on the ashes. Sell tickets and buy veterans some proper healthcare with the proceeds.
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    Then post photos of said VA brass on every light pole in the US with a caption stating THOUGHT THEIR PENSION WAS WORTH A FEW DEAD VETERANS.

    1. You are too kind, zamoose.
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      Also, you left out the fire and salt. The fire comes between the bulldozings, the salt after.
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      Mew

  2. Short answer: The VA needs to be completely disbanded.
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    Period. No exceptions.
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    All VA employees are out on their asses, no exceptions, no severance. The rot has reached the core, the tree is dead, it isn’t even good for kindling.
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    Those veteran-specific hospitals that are able to be absorbed by other hospitals and hospital-groups should be sold off, those that cannot .. shift over to the purview of the DoD.
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    The health care for veterans shall be merged with the rest of the federal government health insurance program, no exceptions, no whining – with two differences. The “employee” contribution and co-pays shall always be fixed at zero, and the policy shall not terminate while the “employee” lives.
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    This would be cheaper, it would get veterans out of the horrific treatment of the VA, and it would serve as a warning to those bureaucrats who decide to play empire-builder instead of doing their {expletive deleted} jobs.
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    Mew

    1. Addendum: Appoint aggrieved VA whistleblowers as overseers for the new structure. They’ve at least shown a modicum of care and a spine or three. Make the current administrators their personal valets or something.

      1. The current administrators shall do hard time.
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        Since Harry Reid has declined to let Yucca Mountain be used for nuclear waste, let’s use it to store this human waste.
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        Mew

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