Can. Veterans Affairs Using Mental Health Records to Discredit Dissenters

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But Jennifer Stoddart says she will never be able to point fingers, nor can she say whether the department’s top bureaucrats are deliberately using private mental-health records to discredit vets who speak out against the government.

That’s because her mandate does not allow her to consider the motive of public servants who break privacy laws.

She found that a minister's briefing note contained notes about a vets mental health records.

So the Commissioner cannot SAY that the Veteran's Affairs is intentionally using confidential information to crush those who go up against them - but the Commissioner can point out the actions that speak for themselves which clearly show blatant disregard for privacy.

So Veteran's Affairs apparently forgets that its own solidiers are NOT the enemy, and treating them as if they are might be their training but is morally reprehensible.

Enjoy the read.

reply to post by Aeons


If they are, then they are breaking Federal Law. HIPPA (Health Information Privacy and Portability Act) was passed specifically to prevent medical records from being released to a third party without explicit permission from the person affected.

There are a few exceptions to this, usually involving Law Enforcement and active investigations, but even then they have to get permission from the person, or a court order to get the files.

Government employed doctors can and do assign diagnosises to discredit long serving members who have been exposed to highly classified information and materials. It is one way of "tagging" them before releasing them back into the wild, so to speak. Military members do get mental health diagnosises if they demonstrate a capacity for asking questions, refusing unlawful orders, and have had a higher level security clearance, as a precaution. All military members who are assigned a disability rating or medical retirement from the military and the "injuries" are labelled as being recieved in a combat zone and in a warzone while perfoming their duties will also be having a weekly conversation with a Wounded Warriors organization representative. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) or PTSD associated with TBI's seem to be the catch-all for psychological classified disorders. Later through the Veterans Association if no physical proof of TBI surfaces through MRI's, CAT scans, or other methods, one may lose their TBI diagnosis and may recieve a schizoaffective disorder diagnosis, or other mild behavioral diagnosis similiar. The military member will recieve a generous monthly pension, which is understood to be hush money, but if one talks openly about what one may or may not know concerning issues of global security, international security, or national security, one may lose their pension, or possibly be admitted to a hospital where one must take medicine such as carbamazepine, which is a drug that decrease brain activity, limits cognitive abilities, and affects critical thinking skills dramatically. In the commercial market it is often used for suppressing seizures, but in one without seizures it can have some detrimental and permanent effects to cognitive abilities.

Summary:
Can Veterans Affairs Use Mental Health Records to Discredit Dissenters?

Yes. It is standard operating procedure in some cases to do so. In fact, Government agencies can and do create mental health records to discredit, or pre-emptively discredit those they feel may be dissenters.

Of course, I could be totally wrong.

-ET

reply to post by Xcathdra


I never thought I would find something I would every agree with you on...

I am still recovering from the shock....