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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.
"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.
"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.
"Well, obviously these reports if they're true are unacceptable
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.
Employees of the hospital then put the information into a secret electronic waiting list, and shred the printout, he explained, 'And they wouldn't take you off that secret list until you had an appointment time that was less than 14 days so it would give the appearance that they were improving greatly the waiting times, when in fact they were not.'
Some veterans waited up to 21 months for appointments, Foote told CNN. And if veterans on the secret list die while waiting for care, VA staff at the hospital remove them from the list so that officials in Washington, D.C. are none the wiser.
At least 40 veterans on the secret list died before they received an appointment, and 'the number's actually higher,' the physician said.
'I would say that 40, there's more than that that I know of, but 40's probably a good number.'
CNN's recent report follows one it made in January that 19 veterans died while waiting for simple medical procedures in 2010 and 2011.
originally posted by: guohua
Really,Who here at ATS is Surprised to read this news article coming from that Thug!
originally posted by: FarleyWayne
Does Mr. Holder even know how to ... Prosecute or Investigate ... ANYTHING ???
DOJ won't investigate deaths of veterans placed on VA hospital's secret waiting list 'at this time'
Justice Department officials have no immediate plans to get involved in the widening Veterans Affairs Department care-delay scandal, but Attorney General Eric Holder said Justice officials are closely monitoring the problems.
At a news conference Tuesday, Holder said his department is awaiting the results of an inspector general investigation into the Phoenix VA health system before taking any action. If that review warrants further criminal or civil action, his department may get involved.
originally posted by: FlyersFan
UK Daily Mail
Justice Department officials have no immediate plans
originally posted by: Benevolent Heretic
not what some right-wing rag sensationalized it to be.
originally posted by: Benevolent Heretic
It's BS.
originally posted by: FarleyWayne
a reply to: guohua
Does Mr. Holder even know how to ... Prosecute or Investigate ... ANYTHING ???
I find it hard to believe that he doesn't seem to think he has anything to worry about ... ( relating to his History of Impotentcy or InActions ).
Opinion: Events will be interesting after the Mid-Term-Election(s) Results ... ( A NEW Hope-n-Change ??? ).