VA’S DESTRUCTION OF PTSD DOCUMENTS

VAWatchdog posted this and so did Veterans For Common Sense because it is important. Will CNN? Will FOX? Will MSNBC? Doubt it. They are too busy talking about Don't Ask Don't Tell. In this case the government doesn't want anyone to ask what happened.

The bulk of the employees in the VA do it because they care and for this person to be protected makes the rest of them look bad. Let the truth come out so that the rest of the VA employees can do what they took the job to do, take care of the veterans.

CREW SEEKS RELIEF FOR VA’S DESTRUCTION OF PTSD DOCUMENTS
1 Feb 2010 // Washington, D.C. - Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a brief seeking discovery after the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) admitted to destroying documents responsive to CREW’s May 2008 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in CREW v. U.S. Dep’t of Veterans Affairs (D.D.C.). This lawsuit stems from CREW’s FOIA request for documents related to the VA’s policy of under-diagnosing post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), after an email was revealed in which VA employee Norma Perez discussed this policy.

Since this issue first came to light, the VA has resisted providing any documents. Most recently the VA claimed it had produced everything it had despite the fact that it had not even turned over Norma Perez’s email or – despite public outcry and congressional hearings on the matter – any other records referring to the email. As a result, CREW argued the VA’s search clearly had been inadequate and, amazingly, the agency said that it couldn’t locate the email because it was destroyed in 2008, months after CREW filed both its FOIA request and this lawsuit. In fact, all the VA’s backup tapes were destroyed, including the one containing the Perez email. The VA says it cannot produce any emails predating December 9, 2008.
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http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/44048