confirmation hearing. but they re not making it easy for the senators that are in charge of this nomination going along. trying to give his nomination a boost last night, the white house gave reporters a stack of reports about ronny jackson s time working in the white house. in that stack of records was a whole punbunch of good stuff, b also an inspector general report about the white house medical unit when he was one of its two leaders. it was rawritten during the tim he was in a leadership position there in 2012 and the report details a power struggle between ronny jackson and another doctor in the office. it also includes a whole bunch of quotes from ronny jackson s subordinates and colleagues at the time, that are terrible! and that sound a lot a like, well, what we read in today s report, as well. from the ig report in 2012, quote, worst command ever. senior officers are not leading. quote, passive-aggressive behavior is exhibited by leadership. quote, command climate is terrible
it also includes a whole bunch of quotes from ronny jackson s subordinates and colleagues at the time that are terrible and that sound a lot like, well, what we read in today s report as well. from the i.g. report in 2012, quote, worst command ever. senior officers are not leading. quote, passive aggressive behavior is exhibited by leadership. quote, command climate is terrible. quote, the leaders are childlike. that was a weird thing for the white house to hand to reporters if they were trying to salvage ronny jackson s nomination, right? but the the other weird thing about the white house handing out those records to reporters on purpose last night is that when they released them last night, they hadn t actually given them to congress who is supposed to be vetting ronny jackson for this job. they had never given them to the people in charge of confirming and vetting him for the v.a. job. they gave them to the press instead. leo shane from military times reports, the senate had not
but they believed the current atmosphere was toxic and not sustainable. page four of the report, focus group comments. some specific quotes and comments from the focus groups concerning the command climate are noted. quote, worst command ever. senior officers are not leading. quote, passive aggressive behavior is exhibited by leadership. command climate is terrible. the leaders are child-like. again, the leader in this case, who s been reviewed, alongside this other officer who he apparently could not get along with, this is ronny jackson. and this was given to the white house as part of an effort to salva salvage ronny jackson s appointment to run the va. i mean, we know from people who have served in the white house over multiple administrations, we know from these positive