$300,000 on a useless training

The VA either knowingly or negligently spent taxpayer dollars to pay instructors without the relevant experience to quote government audit standards at people who are unlikely to conduct that kind of audit in their current jobs. VA Whistleblower Office Wasted $300,000 on “Useless” Training As the Department of Veterans Affairs' Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection faces congressional scrutiny, we learned from sources within the office that it shelled out over $300,000 last month on ineffective and at times irrelevant training for its staff who work on misconduct and whistleblower retaliation allegations. Insiders who spoke to POGO described an office in disarray, with the expensive, hastily planned, and ineffective training as the latest symptom of poor management. The VA either knowingly or negligently spent taxpayer dollars to pay instructors without the relevant experience to quote government audit standards at people who are unlikely to conduct that kind of audit in their current jobs. SPEND SMARTER How Corporate Lawbreakers Get a Leg Up at the Justice Department Potential corporate defendants have many more opportunities to influence the process than most people have. And it happens before corporations or their executives are charged with violating the law, if they face charges at all. CAN YOU BUY JUSTICE?

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The GOP Push to Privatize the Dept of Veterans Affairs

We've seen what "PRIVATIZATION" has done to 'health care' and it isn't pretty!
Only the bottom line matters and not the quality of care.

Our Veterans deserve the best care!
The Veterans Administration, with few exceptions, has delivered that care, while the GOP has opposed requisite funding.

Because many of veterans' conditions and treatment require specialized care, it can't be provided on the CHEAP!

Let's not allow the Dirty Energy Koch Brothers to shortchange our Veterans!





Late last summer and early last fall, The Undercurrent, a web-show sponsored by American Family Voices, released several hours of audio from the June Koch brothers donor retreat. One of the panels featured Pete Hegseth, the CEO of Concerned Veterans for America (CVA), and he said some nakedly political things about his organization’s efforts to drive the scandal at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

We can all agree that veterans deserve the highest degree of care, both on the battlefield and back at home. But CVA is using the Veterans Affairs scandal as a political pawn to push the privatization of the agency’s hospitals — a Republican idea that had been unpopular and thus hard for candidates to embrace publicly. Now that the VA is vulnerable, thanks largely to the CVA undermining it — lo and behold — the GOP presidential candidates support privatization of the VA.

Last night, Rachel Maddow did a great piece of investigative work to further expose these efforts, drawing on the audio from The Undercurrent. Watch Maddow’s piece, and please subscribe to The Undercurrent on YouTube and Facebook for more on-the-ground, independent political reporting. Your subscriptions help us to keep you informed of news before it breaks and to spread the word to larger networks of like-minded Americans.








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Mike Lux

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American Family Voices