thinks a lot. that thinks long and hard. we see that with syria and a lot of different issues and agencies that we re investigating. we re looking at the border patrol, for example. you can go right across. quite a trip to to mexico along the mexican border, thank you very much. we look at agencies like that and there are questions about their behavior and questions about transparency and questions that are quite similar to the questions being raised at the va actually. and we don t have answers yet. the administration is committed to greater transparency in the case of that agency. but we don t know how far that s going to go and where it s going to lead. that is constantly a complaint about an administration, any administration even this one which is held so many decisions so closely at the white house. we ve been of course focusing so intently on brian williams interview with edward snowden and seeing reaction right and left and certainly from younger people who believe so passi
know, we, quite frankly, just were sick and tired of it. and we wanted to create something that addressed it. i think for a lot of people out there, they re going to be, you know, when you hear about this, confused by the banks, the incumbents who have managed these va loans, the benefit to our service men and women, why have they been allowed to provide such a dishonest path for people to get home ownership and the benefits that are rightfully theirs when they return? well, that s a good question. i think that, you know, well, just by program design, veterans are entitled to va home loan benefits. and the va actually guarantees the home loans on behalf of the veterans. but private lending institutions are actually the ones that provide the lending to the eligible beneficiary. and you know, because of that, there s a handoff process that created some gaps within the industry. and that s probably how that occurred. that allowed for the
murder of 16 afghan civilians by a u.s. soldier accused of acting as a one-man death squad. afghan officials say the shooting spree took place in two villages in kandahar province in the district known as the birth place of the taliban. sara sidner joined us with the latest on this story. sara, what do we know right now? reporter: president hamid karzai has released a statement saying 16 people have been dialed including 9 children, 3 women, and 4 afghan men. he s called this a deplorable 5k9 saying it s an act of terrorism that s unforgivable, and he is has been talking about what has to be done going forward. now, there is a full investigation going on, as you might imagine, from nato officials as well as afghan officials looking into this incident. what we re hearing from the international security assistance forces officials, they re saying there s one soldier, an army staff sergeant who acted alone, who went off base around 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning, went out to th
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the families of the fallen. what they call making easy money. in 07, the va and insurance company signed a contract to provide these benefits. that contract still required to pay out lump sum payments, but they had a handshake deal in which the payment would be a worthless checkbook that would allow them to keep the money for their own profitability. not until 2009 did the va actually change the contract signing an amouendment allowing- and give the families a checkbook where the checks work sometimes and sometimes they don t. at that point, the checkbooks had been given for the past ten years and there has been a lot of war in this country. good time to be running a scam, no.