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More VA Whistleblowers Coming Forward, Campaign Says
« on: May 20, 2014, 11:18:04 AM »
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/05/19/more-va-whistleblowers-coming-forward-campaign-says

Conscientious workers at the Veterans Health Administration aware of their employer's reputation for punishing people who expose wrongdoing were given a new outlet last week.

The Project on Government Oversight (POGO) and the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America unveiled an encrypted web submission form Thursday soliciting horror stories in the wake of a nationwide furor about fudged wait time records and related veteran deaths in Phoenix.

POGO Director of Communications Joe Newman says the groups are looking for systematic problems and received 310 submissions as of Monday morning. The majority of reports are thus far from veterans and members of the public, and less than 10 percent are from VA employees, Newman says.

A few appear promising, but POGO plans to carefully vet allegations before moving forward.
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