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• Veterans' Rights Groups Including VCS Sue VA, Seeking Better Care for Injured Troops

  Created: 2007-07-25 05:00:00 Author: Matthew B. Stannard

  July 25, 2007 - Two veterans' rights groups filed suit Monday in San Francisco seeking to force the federal government to make major changes in how it cares for hundreds of thousands of injured veterans of U.S. wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. ...

• VCS Lawsuit Claims Veterans Need Better Care

  Created: 2007-07-25 05:00:00 Author: Steve Handelsman, NBC News

  July 25, 2007 - A class action lawsuit was filed today on behalf of U.S. soldiers and marines, charging that the active duty military and veterans systems are still denying Iraq and Afghan War veterans the care and benefits they deserve. ...

• Veterans Sue Government for 'Shameful Failures'

  Created: 2007-07-24 05:00:00 Author: Aaron Glantz

  SAN FRANCISCO, July 23, 2007 (IPS) - Two veterans' groups sued the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in federal court in San Francisco Monday for alleged "shameful failures" to help tens of thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans who su...

• VA Failing Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans, Lawsuit Contends

  Created: 2007-07-24 05:00:00 Author: Henry Weinstein

  July 24, 2007 - Troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are not getting proper medical and mental health care, the suit says, citing post-traumatic stress disorder as a particular problem.

  
  SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. ...

• Delays in disabled pay, health care prompt suit by VCS against VA

  Created: 2007-07-23 05:00:00 Author: Hope Yen

  July 23, 2007 - Frustrated by delays in health care, a coalition of injured Iraq war veterans is accusing VA Secretary Jim Nicholson of breaking the law by denying them disability pay and mental health treatment. ...

• Update: Injured Iraq war veterans sue VA head - VCS is lead plaintiff

  Created: 2007-07-23 05:00:00 Author: Hope Yen

  July 23, 2007 - Frustrated by delays in health care, injured Iraq war veterans accused VA Secretary Jim Nicholson in a lawsuit of breaking the law by denying them disability pay and mental health treatment. ...

• Ashamed and racked with guilt, the wounded soldier abandoned by his country

  Created: 2007-07-22 05:00:00 Author: Terri Judd

  July 22, 2007 - Lance Corporal Mark Dryden is racked with guilt and ashamed. The source of his guilt is that he saw a soldier he greatly respected die beside him. The source of his shame is that he is an amputee, in his view, an unsightly embarrassme...

• Vice President Dick Cheney Concealed Facts During 2001 California Energy Crisis

  Created: 2007-07-21 05:00:00 Author: Jason Leopold

  July 21, 2007 - In-depth investigation shows how Vice President Dick Cheney pressured federal energy regulators to conceal evidence of widespread market manipulation by energy companies during the California electricity crisis in 2001.
  
  In Ma...

• Court Orders U.S. to Reveal Evidence Against Prisoners of War Held at Guantánamo

  Created: 2007-07-21 05:00:00 Author: William Glaberson

  July 21, 2007 - Court Tells U.S. to Reveal Data on Detainees at Guantánamo

  A federal appeals court ordered the government yesterday to turn over virtually all its information on Guantánamo detainees who are challenging their detention, reje...

• Veterans describe changes wrought by war: Most struggle but manage to adjust

  Created: 2007-07-21 05:00:00 Author: Mark Fischenich

  July 21, 2007 - The violent and tragic incidents are the ones remembered, the ones that prompt news stories about post-traumatic stress disorder, combat stress disorder and other potentially debilitating conditions triggered by combat.
  
  • A...

• Editorial: Hey, big shots, it’s time to care for veterans

  Created: 2007-07-21 05:00:00 Author: Mary Lawrence

  July 21, 2007 - To President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and members of the House and Senate: You’ve all been shocked — shocked to discover the care some of our wounded soldiers received was substandard. ...

• Court Rebukes VA for Failing to Care for Vietnam War Veterans Suffering from Agent Orange Poisoning

  Created: 2007-07-21 05:00:00 Author: Henry Weinstein

  July 21, 2007 - VA rebuked for balking on Agent Orange care: A court says the agency must provide benefits to Vietnam veterans with a type of leukemia.
  
  uly 20, 2007 - In a stinging ruling, a panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals i...

• Editorial Column: After the Wrecking Ball

  Created: 2007-07-20 05:00:00 Author: Paul Sullivan, Executive Director

  July 20, 2007 - On July 17, 2007, Jim Nicholson announced his resignation as Secretary of Veterans Affairs, effective no later than October 1, 2007.  Nicholson cut and ran just as veterans and Congress were gathering pitchforks and torches in a broa...

• President Bush Claims Broad Executive Privilege in U.S. Attorney Firing Probe

  Created: 2007-07-20 05:00:00 Author: Dan Eggen and Amy Goldstein

  July 20, 2007 - Bush administration officials unveiled a bold new assertion of executive authority yesterday in the dispute over the firing of nine U.S. attorneys, saying that the Justice Department will never be allowed to pursue contempt charges in...

• President Bush Signs Secret Executive Order Re-Authorizing Torture by C.I.A.

  Created: 2007-07-20 05:00:00 Author: Mark Mazzetti

  July 20, 2009 - After months of behind the scenes wrangling, the White House said Friday that it had given the Central Intelligence Agency approval to resume its use of some harsh interrogation methods in questioning terrorism suspects in secret pris...

• VCS: Nicholson Sank VA - Now Who Will Fix VA?

  Created: 2007-07-18 05:00:00 Author: Michael Weisskopf

  July 18, 2009 -Who Will Run Veterans Affairs?
  
  President Bush has a job opening for the head of a department with a crushing backlog of work, a sharp increase in demand for services and a battered public image.
  
  

• King George W.: James Madison’s Nightmare

  Created: 2007-07-18 05:00:00 Author: Robert Scheer

  July 18, 2007 - George W. Bush is the imperial president that James Madison and other founders of this great republic warned us about.  He lied the nation into precisely the “foreign entanglements” that George Washington feared would destroy the...

• Study says US government not doing enough to fix disparities in veterans' disability pay

  Created: 2007-07-18 05:00:00 Author: Hope Yen

  July 18, 2007 -Injured U.S. veterans could be shortchanged in their government disability pay depending on where they live because of wide disparities from state to state, a new Veterans Affairs Department study concludes. ...

• Senator Murray: Next VA Secretary Must Be Advocate, not Apologist

  Created: 2007-07-17 05:00:00 Author: Patty Murray

  July 17, 2007 - Press Release,
  
  "These are serious times for the Department of Veterans Affairs and we need the President to send us a serious nominee to fill the job.  That means a truthful advocate for veterans, not an apologist for this Adm...

• News Flash: VA Secretary Jim Nicholson Resigns

  Created: 2007-07-17 05:00:00 Author: Terence Hunt

  July 17, 2007 - Veterans Affairs chief Jim Nicholson, who was forced to defend the Bush administration's handling of people injured in battle after revelations of shoddy health care at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, announced Tuesday he is resignin...