Shinseki Yields to Pressure to Resign from Veteran Affairs

Shinseki Yields to Pressure to Resign from Veteran Affairs

* Eric Shinseki resigned this morning as Veteran Affairs secretary. With tepid support from the White House after yesterday’s interim report from the VA’s Inspector General and bipartisan calls for his resignation, there was little else he could do. He...
Shinseki Yields to Pressure to Resign from Veteran Affairs

US Federal Government Hard at Work to Put the Criminal in “Criminal Incompetence”

* The US Veterans Health Administration’s Inspector General published an interim review [PDF] on the Phoenix Health Care System’s patient wait times, scheduling practices, and their effects on patient outcomes: “To date, our work has substantiated...
Shinseki Yields to Pressure to Resign from Veteran Affairs

S-80: A Sub, for Spain, to Sail Out on the Main

S-80 cutaway, labeled(click to view full) The CIM-2000 Scorpene class diesel-electric attack submarine partnership was just the first step for Spain’s Navantia, as it joined with France’s DCNS to enter the global submarine market. Now Navantia is building...