On this veterans day, president obama said he is still not satisfied with the department of veterans affairs. The president ordered a massive overhaul last year. After reports that many vets were forced to wait months for treatment. Now Margaret Brennan reports the va paid millions in bonuses some of it to doctors under investigation. Reporter dr. David houlihan former chief of staff at veteran center in tomah, washington was nicknamed the candyman, he allegedly dolled out high amount of pain medications to patients. Yet the va paid houlihan, a 400 4,000 performance bonus last year. Being fired earlier this week. The v. A. Paid out 143 million in performance bonuses to employees in 2014. Several under investigation or accused of mismanagement, the list compiled by the House Veterans Affairs committee and jeff miller who said it is evidence of the va disturbing trend of rewarding employees who preside over corruption and incompetence. In a statement the v. A. Said it needs to pay bonuse
Accused of mismanagement, the list compiled by the House Veterans Affairs committee and jeff miller who said it is evidence of the va disturbing trend of rewarding employees who preside over corruption and incompetence. In a statement the v. A. Said it needs to pay bonuses to attract and retain top talent and did suspend payouts last year to some senior executives, following revelations employees falsified wait lists to meet targets. V. A. Secretary bob mcdonald brought on the fix the wait list scandal said the agency has made progress but congress is in the way. My vision is being held hostage by politics. What i am trying to do is to work with the members of congress to leave politics at the door and focus on veterans. Reporter now, charlie, mcdonald Needs Congress to approve a more than 1 billion funding increase he requested to to serve the 23 million veterans in this country. Thank you, margaret. Two Fantasy Sports web sites said today they will fight to stay in business in new yo
Plus. Reporter president obama is heading to paris with a plan to drastically cut carbon he minutes. But not everyone back home is on board. I am Kristen Saloomey in West Virginia, where there is strong opposition. Hello there, i am robin adams with all of the sports news live from doha. Another step towards a first title since 1936. And its the murray brother who his put them in the position against belgium. Details coming up. Rebel fighters in syria say they have recaptured a town and several villages in the aleppo country side from government soldiers backed by shia militia and iranian forces. It reverses government gains made two weeks ago. Crucially, several rebel Groups Joined fors including the Al Qaedaaffiliated nusra front. Painful loss on his syrian traps in the area despite the government getting help from airstrikes. Aleppo has significant extra stc value as it sits along the border. It has been a key Battle Ground for the past three years. From the hoarder hashem reports.
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Our panel on the history of terrorism, new avenues of research. So we areroundtable, each going to speak for five to 10 minutes, somewhat informally. We will talk about specific aspects of our research. Introducer,ator and i will be the most general in my comments. Of timewill have a lot i am anticipating over an hour to talk amongst ourselves and to take questions and comments and feedback from you this a fully, experiential, interactive exercise as we proceed. My name is randy law, i am a russian and soviet historian by , but i have been working in the field of terrorism for a decade or more. The project that brought us together is an edited volume done by the routledge history of terrorism. Large reference work that i was interested in putting together as something that would be comprehensive. That would read as a cohesive book, not just a collection of articles. During the writing of it, contributors share their chapters with each other, there was a good bit of dialogue back and fo