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  • Aug 31 Update: Support VCS - Stand with Your Winning Team

    Created: 2009-08-28 05:00:00 Author: VCS

    August 31, 2009 - Your weekly update features new examples of how your support for Veterans for Common Sense improves the lives of all of our veterans and protects the freedoms of all Americans. Your weekly update provides you with news and facts avail...

  • ALS Letter Update: VCS Writes VA; VA Issues Statement

    Created: 2009-08-27 23:11:35 Author: VCS

    Thursday Evening, August 27, 2990 - Tonight's update about the 1,800 letters VA sent to veterans regarding ALS benefits contains two parts.  The first part is a new VA statement posted this evening to VA's home page, www.v...

  • Veterans Demand Apology from GOP and FOX for Lies About VA

    Created: 2009-08-27 17:36:34 Author: Veterans for Common Sense

    August 27, 2009 - The claim that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has a manual encouraging veterans to "commit suicide," made by Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, is an asinine assertion with no basis in fact. 

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  • Editorial Column: Closing in on the Torturers

    Created: 2009-08-27 17:26:09 Author: Ray McGovern

    August 26, 2009 - Do you think the wardens will let George Tenet wear his Presidential Medal of Freedom over the orange coverall?  Perhaps he and Donald Rumsfeld will end up doing time together in one of the prisons also slated to host what Rumsfeld...

  • Op-Ed: Investigate Top Officials, not Just CIA Interrogators

    Created: 2009-08-27 17:23:17 Author: Doug Bandow

    August 24, 2009 - Attorney General Eric Holder is appointing a special prosecutor to review CIA interrogations of terrorist suspects. However, the investigation shouldn't stop at the agency. No one should be above the law, especially top policymakers.<...

  • Gulf War Research Update: UT Southwestern Disagrees with VA Decision to End Research

    Created: 2009-08-27 17:20:27 Author: UT Southwestern Medical Center

    August 26, 2009, Dallas, TX - UT Southwestern has issued the following statement in regard to today's news release by the Veterans Administration:

    We regret the VA's unilateral decision to not renew the contract supporting vital research focu...

  • ALS Letter Update: VA to Pay for Testing Expenses for Veterans

    Created: 2009-08-27 17:01:43 Author: Ashley Hayes

    August 26, 2009 - The Department of Veterans Affairs said Wednesday it will apologize to veterans who were mistakenly told they'd been diagnosed with a fatal neurological condition.  Letters were sent August 13 to 1,864 veterans and survivors, the V...

  • VCS Fights to Save VA's Gulf War Illness Research

    Created: 2009-08-27 15:19:15 Author: Linda Stewart Ball

    VA Ends Gulf War Illness Research Contract

    August 26, 2009, Dallas, Texas (AP) - Citing persistent compliance and performance deficiencies, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs canceled a $75 million, five-year research cont...

  • Chairman Hall Applauds VA's Steps to Simplify PTSD Benefit Rules

    Created: 2009-08-26 15:22:44 Author: The Hudson Valley Press

    August 25, 2009 - U.S. Rep. John Hall (D-Dover) today applauded the announcement by Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is proposing a new rule to make it easier for veterans suffering from Post Trau...

  • Light Punishment for Rape at Army's Fort Lewis

    Created: 2009-08-26 15:19:15 Author: Sean Robinson

    August 23, 2009, Fort Lewis, WA - She retched blood, spat out a tooth, and squinted through a fog of swollen pain. Her face was broken. She didn't know it yet.  Slow recognition. Empty apartment, fast-food bag on the bedside table ... Fort Lewis.

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  • Editorial Column: Thomas Paine v. the Right's Torture Defenders

    Created: 2009-08-26 15:03:58 Author: Glenn Greenwald

    August 25, 2009 - GOP Congressman Peter King -- the ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee -- had this rancid out...

  • VA's 'You have ALS' Letter Stuns, Scares Vets

    Created: 2009-08-26 14:48:41 Author: Bryant Jordan

    August 25, 2009 - Nodya "Gale" Reid of Montgomery, Ala., read the Veterans Administration letter in her hand, not believing at first it was meant for her.  She checked the name again and the Social Security number. It was her.  And she kept reading...

  • Fox News Caught Telling Lies About VA

    Created: 2009-08-26 14:33:59 Author: Media Matters

    August 23, 2009 - On Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace repeatedly cropped quotes from a Veterans Health Administration (VHA) document to falsely suggest that the Obama administration is pressuring veterans to end their lives prematurely and to accuse Assi...

  • Editorial Column: What Every American Should be Made to Learn About the IG Torture Report

    Created: 2009-08-26 14:04:29 Author: Glenn Greenwald

    August 24, 2009 - I wrote earlier today about Eric Holder's decision to "review" whether criminal prosecutions are warranted in connection with the torture of Terrorism suspects -- that

    Proposal to Steamline VA Benefits for Veterans with PTSD

    Created: 2009-08-26 13:47:43 Author: James Dao

    August 25, 2009 - Under fire from veterans groups and Congress for its handling of disability claims, the Department of Veterans Affairs is proposing new regulations that it says will make it easier for veterans to seek compensation for post-traumatic ...

  • Editorial Column: Where Is a Soldier To Turn?

    Created: 2009-08-25 14:47:48 Author: Colonel George Reed, US Army, Retired

    August 23, 2009 - I was raised a Methodist, my grandparents were pillars of the Baptist Church, my best friends were Lutheran and Catholic, and my Boy Scout Troop met in the local Presbyterian Church. I graduated from a Jesuit university and after al...

  • Florida VCS Denounces Senator's Attempt to Stop Investigation of Bush-Era Law Violations

    Created: 2009-08-25 14:44:08 Author: Florida Veterans for Common Sense
    August 24, 2009 - Since our founding, Florida Veterans for Common Sense has opposed torture. We maintain an initiative to hold accountable those in our government who authorized and conducted torture. ...

  • Civil Liberties Victory, as Attorney General Holder To Appoint Prosecutor To Investigate Torture

    Created: 2009-08-25 14:37:39 Author: ACLU

    Release Of CIA Torture Report Underscores Need For Full Investigation, Says ACLU

    August 24, 2009 - Attorney General Eric Holder will appoint a special prosecutor to conduct a preliminary investigation into whether federal laws were v...

  • VA Issues Statement on ALS Letters

    Created: 2009-08-25 14:35:42 Author: Department of Veterans Affairs

    August 24, 2009 -  In our efforts to keep Veterans informed of their expanding eligibility for benefits, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) sent notifications to Veterans with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) for disability compensation bene...

  • Bush-Era Torture News: ACLU Obtains Detailed Official Record Of CIA Torture Program

    Created: 2009-08-25 14:30:20 Author: ACLU

    Justice Department Documents Describe Enhanced Interrogation Techniques Used As Late As 2007

    August 25, 2009 - The government today handed over to the American Civil Liberties Union a detailed official description of the CIA's interr...