The Veterans Administration destroyed thousands of medical records of military veterans because the backlog of exams made their efficiency record look bad. The employee who tried to blow the whistle on the practice eventually lost his job. Daily Caller: Employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) destroyed veterans' medical files in a systematic attempt to eliminate backlogged veteran medical exam requests, a former VA employee told The Daily Caller. Audio of an internal VA meeting obtained by TheDC confirms that VA officials in Los Angeles intentionally canceled backlogged patient exam requests. "The committee was called System Redesign and the purpose of the meeting was to figure out ways to correct the department's efficiency. And one of the issues at the time was the backlog," Oliver Mitchell, a Marine veteran and former patient services assistant in the VA Greater Los Angeles Medical Center, told TheDC. "We just didn't have the resources to conduct all of...(Read Full Post)