Jim Nicholson’s Head on a Pike
Everything in the ‘affairs’ departments is busted in American government. The Bureau of Indian Affairs has been America’s dirty little secret for a couple hundred years. Now, thanks to the first worthwhile piece of investigative reporting in recent memory, by Dana Priest at the Washington Post, Walter Reed Hospital has become the poster-child for neglected active-duty servicemen.
Everything in the ‘affairs’ departments is busted in American government. The Bureau of Indian Affairs has been America’s dirty little secret for a couple hundred years. Now, thanks to the first worthwhile piece of investigative reporting in recent memory, by Dana Priest at the Washington Post, Walter Reed Hospital has become the poster-child for neglected active-duty servicemen.
But there’s another scandal lurking, the care system after discharge and, you guessed it, affairs is part of the name. Jim Nicholson heads up the United States Department of Veterans’ Affairs, a cabinet-level position. Check it out, Da…