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President Obama: It's time to clean house at the VA.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Imagine entering the military, risking your life in the line of duty, being treated at a Veterans Administration Hospital, complaining voluntarily about the VA hospital treatment to a reporter after speaking up at a town hall gathering there, and then having VA security stop the interview and strongarm the tape from the reporter. It happened this week at a Washington, D.C.-area Veterans hospital.  Here are links to the story:  WTOP radio reports that the VA is still holding WAMU reporter David Schultz's tape: http://wtop.com/?sid=1647088&nid=25  David Schultz reports: http://wamu.org/audio/nw/09/04/n17090408-25952.asx  WTOP radio's Mark Segraves calls the actions against the reporter and VA patient a crime: http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=695&sid=latest   The federal Reporters Privacy Act: http://www4...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on April 10, 2009 (boomark / email).