i taught him in high school and that s new out there. everybody that knows me remembers that i worked with him. that s just the way he was. he never grew up. he was still just defiant. he had nothing wrong in the mind except for the drug use. that s jerry richardson littlefield s brother. so they clearly i mean, understandably, they don t buy the insanity defense and neither did the jury. yeah and listen, there was a lot of factors andrea. eddie routh, the fact he stole the car and was driving away. it shows he knew right and wrong. and other things. that s really the standard. at that time did he know whether it was right or wrong. let s be clear. he was being seen by the va for they thought he was
rob neighbors conducted of the vha found, and i m quoting, significant and chronic systemic failures, including too little responsiveness, transparency and accountability, and that is totally unacceptable. it recommends the vha be restructured and reformed with stronger management, leadership, and oversight, as well as more doctors and staff. and i totally agree, and we re going to make that happen. i ve asked rob to remain at the va for now to help move these reforms forward. hiring of new vwa leaders has been frozen. vha leaders has been frozen to make sure the new team we re putting in place is the right one. based on the recommendations of our panel of experts i will be nominating the next leader of the vha. i want to get the very best leader on the job and get going on these reforms and we re going to work with congress to make sure the vha has more of the
technology. more broadly, the review that rob neighbors conducted of the va found and i m quoting systemic and chronic failures including too little responsiveness, transparency and accountability. and that is totally unacceptable. it recommends that the vha be restructured and reformed with stronger management, leadership and oversight as well as more doctors and staff. and i totally agree. we re going to make that happen. i ve asked for rob to remain at the va for now to help move these reforms forward. hiring of new vwa leaders has been frozen. vha leaders has been frozen to make sure the new team we re putting in place is the right one. based on recommendations of our panel of experts i will be nominating the next leader of the vha. i want to get the very best leader on the job and get going on these reforms.
technolo technology. more broadly, the review that rob nabors conducted found and i m quoting, significant and chronic systemic failures, including too little responsiveness and transparency and accountability. that is totally unacceptable. it recommends that the vha be restructured and reformed with stronger management and leadership and oversight as well as more doctors and staff. and i totally agree and we re going to make that happen. i ve asked rob to remain at the va for now to help move these reforms forward. hiring of new vwa leaders has been frozen, vha leaders has been frozen to make sure the new team we re putting in place is the right one. based on the recommendation of panel of experts i ll be nominating the next leader of the vha. i want the best leader on the job and get going on these reforms and we ll work with
you really have to dig down on this report. it comes from the office of special counsel. these are the government prosecutors who protect government inside whistleblowers and investigate whistleblowers complaints. they have sent a letter to the president this morning, basically saying, hey, we ve investigated a lot of these va problems, a lot of these health problems, and we ve brought these to the attention of the va. they don t agree with us. we, the special prosecutors here, believe the va is really not capable of investigating itself. they cite ten different cases of what appear to us to be obvious patient neglect where the va has determined it was just harmless error, no harm done. in the letter, 50 different allegations of patient threat or safety are currently being investigated. 29 of those are so bad that they ve been referred to the va for further investigation. let me give you one example. in massachusetts, a vet with a