The update is not about NPR saying these events didn't happen. The response from Shoemaker this past week states he didn't realize the instructions from the Army to the VA had been made at all.
His first response to NPR, when the story was first aired, was to deny such instructions had been passed down. This update occurred after he reviewed the memo of 31 March: this was the memo wherein a member of the tiger team (a Col. Baker) advised the VA not to counsel veterans on their disability benefits.
Shoemaker does assert that was not his intention or instructions in the meeting of 30 March, and the memo indicate a problem in miscommunication at the tiger team meeting of 30 March.
*********************************** Where NPR is butting heads is Shoemakers assertion that he wasn't aware that the instructions were explicitly given and accepted at the investigation meeting. I need to go back over old NPR stories and see if that memo is posted, AND see if that memo is posted at other news sources.
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See I disagree on the interpreation of the update
Date: 2008-02-15 06:21 pm (UTC)The response from Shoemaker this past week states he didn't realize the instructions from the Army to the VA had been made at all.
His first response to NPR, when the story was first aired, was to deny such instructions had been passed down.
This update occurred after he reviewed the memo of 31 March: this was the memo wherein a member of the tiger team (a Col. Baker) advised the VA not to counsel veterans on their disability benefits.
Shoemaker does assert that was not his intention or instructions in the meeting of 30 March, and the memo indicate a problem in miscommunication at the tiger team meeting of 30 March.
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Where NPR is butting heads is Shoemakers assertion that he wasn't aware that the instructions were explicitly given and accepted at the investigation meeting. I need to go back over old NPR stories and see if that memo is posted, AND see if that memo is posted at other news sources.