standard government form to renew his top-secret clearance. what shocked him was the investigator spent hours asking the most basic questions. is your wife really julie? did you really go to school at august college? did you really live at this address? they simply read the form to me, and i simply said it was true. reporter: hamre says with the personal information available online a computer could do the same background check for $100. and, instead, we re spending $4,000 to have people conduct rather conduct investigations that aren t revealing anything. it s amazing when you hear this. like i said, in the category of shocking but not surprising but truly shocking. what is the root of the problem? funding problem? staffing problem or something else? it depend on who you listen to, erin. the inspector general says their resources are woefully inadequate and they don t have enough to do the kind of
900,000 vets are waiting on claims. and some in areas two years for a response on their claims from the regional centers. our group started a million vet back log.comand a petition. get people to wake up that our vets shouldn t wait on a calcified bureaucracy. it needs to be fixed and we will at a on it. is the problem the budget or bureaucracy. no, it is not the budget, governor. it has increased 40 percent by 2009 and they are exempt from sequestation. and it is not a funding problem. but a bureaucracy that is unwilling to reform itself. incentives don t force them to
900,000 vets are waiting on claims. and some in areas two years for a response on their claims from the regional centers. our group started a million vet back log.comand a petition. get people to wake up that our vets shouldn t wait on a calcified bureaucracy. it needs to be fixed and we will at a on it. is the problem the budget or bureaucracy. no, it is not the budget, governor. it has increased 40 percent by 2009 and they are exempt from sequestation. and it is not a funding problem. but a bureaucracy that is unwilling to reform itself. incentives don t force them to
900,000 vets are waiting on claims. and some in areas two years for a response on their claims from the regional centers. our group started a million vet back log.comand a petition. get people to wake up that our vets shouldn t wait on a calcified bureaucracy. it needs to be fixed and we will at a on it. is the problem the budget or bureaucracy. no, it is not the budget, governor. it has increased 40 percent by 2009 and they are exempt from sequestation. and it is not a funding problem. but a bureaucracy that is unwilling to reform itself. incentives don t force them to
900,000 vets are waiting on claims. and some in areas two years for a response on their claims from the regional centers. our group started a million vet back log.comand a petition. get people to wake up that our vets shouldn t wait on a calcified bureaucracy. it needs to be fixed and we will at a on it. is the problem the budget or bureaucracy. no, it is not the budget, governor. it has increased 40 percent by 2009 and they are exempt from sequestation. and it is not a funding problem. but a bureaucracy that is unwilling to reform itself. incentives don t force them to