Veterans group: VA secretary has ‘already gone native with the VA bureaucracy’

By Josh Hicks, The Washington Post:  VA Secretary Robert McDonald said Thursday that the agency is working as fast as it can to remove bad workers under a new law that gives the VA greater authority to fire senior executives, but he added that the employees are entitled to due process.

He declined to say how many employees the VA has disciplined or identify any of the individuals. Federal law restricts what an agency can say about such matters.  To read the entire article, click here:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2014/08/15/veterans-group-va-secretary-has-already-gone-native-with-the-va-bureaucracy/?tid=hpModule_308f7142-9199-11e2-bdea-e32ad90da239&hpid=z16