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Slate Magazine
April 30, 2018
The scandalous withdrawal of VA secretary nominee Adm. Ronny Jackson on Thursday was just the latest episode in a long stretch of chaos at the Department of Veterans Affairs. If President Trump wants to end the turmoil at the VA and allow the department to confront its critical problems, he will need toÃâà...
Richmond.com
April 30, 2018
First, in 2014, a distinguished retired general, Eric Shinseki, left abruptly when the Arizona VA's problems occurred despite continued improvements in the administration during his five years as director. And after a few more years of continuing improvements under director Dr. David Shulkin, he too wasÃâà...
CNN
April 30, 2018
(CNN) -- For years, the US Department of Veterans Affairs had been roiled by mishaps, setbacks and controversies. But recently, several veterans and their family members told CNN, they believed the department was finally improving. Now, with all the political turmoil surrounding the appointment of a newÃâà...
DisabledVeterans.org (blog)
April 27, 2018
Former secretary Eric Shinseki resigned once the wait list scandal hit in 2014. He likely should've just weathered the storm to help finalize the massive reforms being ushered in under his watch. Then Bob McDonald gave it whirl for two years but a squabble between President Trump and McDonald resultedÃâà...
Military Times
April 26, 2018
WASHINGTON — The controversies surrounding President Donald Trump's pick to take over the Department of Veterans Affairs have not only thrown the agency's leadership into disarray but also threaten to undo years of work by previous officials to try and rehabilitate the massive bureaucracy's publicÃâà...
Jefferson Public Radio
April 25, 2018
Merkley personally reached out to then VA Secretary Eric Shinseki several times about Campbell's case. Lynchild died in December 2012. And on Jan. 29, 2013, the VA granted Campbell a waiver, making the couple the first in the country to be granted the right to be buried next to their same-sex spouse.
KPTV.com
April 24, 2018
During her 25 years of service, friends said Campbell concealed her sexual identity to avoid dishonorable discharge. Following sustained advocacy from Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian and U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, then-Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki granted a burial waiverÃâà...
WGNO
April 24, 2018
... 2014 – VA Secretary Eric Shinseki resigns. June 9, 2014 – The Department of Veterans Affairs releases the results of an internal audit of hundreds of Veterans Affairs facilities. It reveals that 63,869 veterans enrolled in the VA health care system in the past 10 years have yet to be seen for an appointment.
OregonLive.com
April 23, 2018
Lynchild's burial in a national cemetery is believed to be the first of a same-sex partner of a veteran -- Linda was a Lt. Col. in the Air Force and Oregon National Guard -- and required a waiver of VA policy by Eric Shinseki, the secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Campbell died in March.
KITV Honolulu
April 20, 2018
... 2014 - VA Secretary Eric Shinseki resigns. June 9, 2014 - The Department of Veterans Affairs releases the results of an internal audit of hundreds of Veterans Affairs facilities. It reveals that 63,869 veterans enrolled in the VA health care system in the past 10 years have yet to be seen for an appointment.
The Hawaii Herald
April 16, 2018
Eric Shinseki. The luncheon will begin at 10:30 a.m. and will be held in DeRussy Hall on the hotel's second floor. Harris was born in Japan to his Japanese mother and Caucasian father, who was serving in the Navy in Japan during World War II when the couple met. Adm. Harris was always supportive ofÃâà...
Military Times
April 11, 2018
Navy veteran Samuel Ewing, left, waits to be seen by a medical care provider at the Sacramento Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Rancho Cordova, Calif., in April 2015. White House and department officials are involved in a years-long fight over privatization of VA programs and responsibilities.
Chicago Tribune
April 2, 2018
That scandal cost then-VA Secretary Eric Shinseki his position. Shinseki's replacement, Robert McDonald, promptly displayed an utter lack of respect for veterans with his obtuse remarks comparing VA care to a trip to Disneyland. He said of the long wait times that veterans must experience for clinic visits,Ãâà...
The Hill
March 30, 2018
The number one question reverberating throughout the veterans' community right now is whether Admiral Ronny Jackson is qualified to be the next secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs. This begs the question, what exactly qualifies one to lead the nation's second largest government agency?
The Daily Dot
March 29, 2018
Earlier this year, the Washington Post reported that Shulkin's chief of staff doctored emails so that Shulkin's wife could join him on a 10-day trip to Europe—at taxpayers' expense. In 2014, Secretary Eric Shinseki resigned after an Inspector General report revealed that veterans were waiting as long as 115Ãâà...
FederalNewsRadio.com
March 29, 2018
... research, technology, personnel and administrative staff to be fully effective, you've got to have unified leadership and unambiguous goals. That can't happen if there's a headquarters culture of Secretary-be-damned. I mean, how bad could Eric Shinseki, Bob McDonald and David Shulkin possibly be?
Politico
March 29, 2018
And it has proven unwieldy even when led by highly decorated, experienced administrators such as Eric Shinseki, a retired four-star Army general who resigned during the Obama administration amid a scandal over lengthy wait times and faulty scheduling practices for medical appointments. Shinseki wasÃâà...
The Atlantic
March 28, 2018
McDonald replaced Eric Shinseki, who had been chief of staff for the Army. Jackson is being asked to take on an enormous, complicated, and troubled bureaucracy with much less direct experience than those men. Jackson did, however, look good on TV discussing Trump's health—and both in the past andÃâà...
AOL
March 21, 2018
McDonald served as the chief executive of Procter & Gamble and will replace Eric Shinseki who resigned after allegations of delayed care came to light. (Photo by Dennis Brack-Pool/Getty Images). US President Barack Obama speaks to US Vice President Joe Biden after Biden introduced him during aÃâà...
Socialist Worker Online
March 21, 2018
Fifteen years ago this week, George W. Bush launched the invasion of Iraq. Bush and Co. intended the second Iraq War as a stepping-stone to wider domination of the Middle East, and they claimed victory when Saddam Hussein's dictatorial regime fell quickly. But within months, the U.S. faced massÃâà...
The American Conservative
March 19, 2018
Experienced professionals who were more cautious in their appraisals—like Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki, who asserted that many more troops would be needed to secure Iraq than the Pentagon was letting on—were marginalized and forced out, discarded as dinosaurs who didn't understandÃâà...
Daily Inter Lake
March 18, 2018
In 2014, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki resigned when a federal investigation revealed falsified data masking dangerously long patient wait times. The Obama administration responded with the Veterans Choice Program, which tried to mitigate the VA's case backlog by allowing veterans to seek care fromÃâà...
Vox
March 14, 2018
Eric Shinseki was forced out as secretary of veterans affairs and replaced by Bob McDonald, a veteran and Procter & Gamble executive whose political contributions over the years had gone exclusively to Republicans. Armed with new authority and new money by the McCain-Sanders legislation andÃâà...
KHOU
March 7, 2018
For example, VA officials at the local, regional and national level knew for years about widespread falsification of patient wait times before a national crisis exploded in the headlines in 2014. The secretary at the time, Eric Shinseki, was not aware of the breadth of the problems. He resigned amid the fallout.
Printing Impressions
March 7, 2018
... the fundamental overarching problem of a lack of qualified labor is what will drive more commercial printers to embrace inkjet technology. It is going to change commercial printers' business models, however uncomfortable that may be. But as U.S. Army General Eric Shinseki, who was in charge of supplyÃâà...
Jefferson Public Radio
March 5, 2018
Jeff Merkley lobbied then-Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki to allow the burial. He granted a burial waiver for Lynchild on Jan. 29, 2013. In her South Waterfront apartment, Campbell hung a personal note from President Obama thanking Campbell for her service and expressingÃâà...
Health Affairs (blog)
March 5, 2018
In 2014—exactly 40 years later—front-line clinical staffing shortages coupled with manipulation of wait-time information by administrators at more than 40 clinics in 19 states led to the resignation of VA Secretary Eric Shinseki. Further investigation revealed more than a decade of systemic data manipulation,Ãâà...
KUOW News and Information
March 3, 2018
Jeff Merkley lobbied then-Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki to allow the burial. He granted a burial waiver for Lynchild on Jan. 29, 2013. In her South Waterfront apartment, Campbell hung a personal note from President Obama thanking Campbell for her service and expressingÃâà...
The Wilson Times
February 22, 2018
The secretary of the VA, Eric Shinseki, was forced to resign. Janet Napolitano had to apologize for issuing a false and offensive report that returning war vets were liable to join right-wing terrorist groups. Finally, a community organizer/sometime senator/president buys an $8.1-million home in DC? If you'reÃâà...
The Hill
February 20, 2018
The scandal that engulfed the Department of Veterans Affairs these past few weeks was sordid and sad. More disturbingly, it has only gotten worse, illuminating the deep-seated problems that still plague the VA. Our veterans deserve better, starting with a full house-cleaning. The VA's current round ofÃâà...
CNN
May 24, 2014
Those who know Eric Shinseki chuckled when their laconic friend began his Army retirement speech in 2003 with this: "'My name is Shinseki, and I am a soldier." It was pure Shinseki, longtime friend Rollie Stichweh thought. Shinseki, ending his Army career that day as chief of staff, had always been a manÃâà...
CNN
May 16, 2014
Under withering criticism, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki told a Senate committee on Thursday that he was "mad as hell" about allegations of deadly waiting times and coverup at VA hospitals but he doesn't plan to resign. The retired Army general faced angry legislators and then aggressiveÃâà...
CNN
May 9, 2014
Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki has ordered a "face-to-face audit" at all Department of Veterans Affairs clinics, a spokeswoman told CNN on Thursday. Earlier in the day, the House Veterans Affairs Committee voted to subpoena Shinseki in the wake of accusations that his department is responsibleÃâà...
Stars and Stripes
December 31, 1999
Then-VA Secretary Eric Shinseki eventually stepped down amid a CVA-led campaign demanding his resignation. In the 2014 midterms, CVA featured the wait-time scandal in a large ad campaign and financed a “Get Out The Veteran” tour designed to drive up conservative turnout. “Secret waiting lists.
ThinkProgress
December 31, 1999
In 2014, he cheered the resignation of Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki as a “good first step.” And in a 2015 tribute to the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, he opined: “The actions against the rule of law by President Obama, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, Attorneys General Eric Holder andÃâà...
Economics21
December 31, 1999
Those revelations led to the resignation of then-Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki, as well as laws intended to increase accountability at the Department and increase access to care outside of VA facilities for veterans. Unfortunately, this new audit found that the pattern ofÃâà...
OregonLive.com
December 31, 1999
Lynchild's burial in a national cemetery is believed to be the first of a same-sex partner of a veteran -- Linda was a Lt. Col. in the Air Force and Oregon National Guard -- and required a waiver of VA policy by Eric Shinseki, the secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs. After winning the waiver, LindaÃâà...
