A GAO report published yesterday blew apart VA assertions of fairness
by showing VA whistleblowers are ten times more likely to be punished than
peers who say nothing.
The report also revealed senior VA managers are sometimes not held accountable for substantiated misconduct and that sometimes those same
managers are allowed to investigate themselves.
Let me put that another way.
There is a fox. That fox is guarding the henhouse. It sometimes guards
the henhouse from inside the chicken coup. Other times, it guards the hens by
putting the hen right into its mouth.
No wonder the agency has such a hard time finding employees. It may not
be as related to the public-private pay gap as some VA officials may have you
believe.
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