Presents a side of the Walter Reed fiasco I was not familiar with. The piece isn't very balanced or well-sourced, however.

A story of greed, corruption, insider contracts, anti-worker actions, disregard for the maimed, and dogmatic foolishness that would have been a surprise six year ago. Excellent research.

the information here, if combined with testimony elicited by Ms holmes-norton, representing d.c. in congress, in her questions to Commanders Kiley and Weightman of Walter Reed Hospital, seems to offer greater questions about the privatization priorities of this administration. Their testimony was that although the government employees had outperformed the private candidates, when offered the jobs, and there were 80 of them needed to be offered, only ten had been filled, as the candidates were told that they were being offered only a 4-month contract under the private employment. The testimony also held that the privatization definitely did not help the current outcome at the hospital. I think the greater story is how greatly the ... More »

For 6 years, the Bush Administration has had one overriding moral value--corporate greed. It didn't matter who was hurt, as long as big corporations continued to rack up record profits. But they've finally hurt somebody the public and the politicians are willing to stand up for--military veterans. Arnold Schwarznegger tried to take on two popular groups--nurses and teachers--in his disasterous 2005 California special election. Now the Bush administration is feeling a similar pain after they tried to cut corners on care for a very popular group, wounded service personnel. What this article points out is that it's a bigger problem than what we're seeing on the nightly news. It also leads to the important question, if privatization ... More »

WOW This is great journalism. Is it fair? I want to know. Scandal is a word which is losing it's punch. I don't think Mattera is making this stuff up. I will have to investigate, guess I'll start by asking Joe Lieberman.

This story is great background to the Walter Reed scandal however it contains opinion and is not well sourced. It appears to be factual though, but required my own investigation of additional sources to be sure.