As part of his testimony before Congress this week the man in charge of the Department of Veterans Affairs – Secretary James Peake – criticized the credibility of a CBS News report from March 20, 2008 , that said the VA told us there were 790 suicide attempts among veterans under the VA’s care in 2007. More...
The death of Deborah Jeane Palfrey marks the completion of one of those unseemly chapters in American political and social history that many, I suspect, could not see end soon enough.
Last night CBS News reported on internal emails written by top officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs that appear to show how the VA tried to cover-up the true risk of suicide among our nation’s military veterans. However, veterans should know the VA does offer help. More...
I figure as an investigative reporter when folks start questioning my patriotism or citizenship I’m on the right track.
So it was last December when the VA’s head of mental health, Dr. Ira Katz, went before Congress and went after CBS News and our data revealing an “epidemic” of suicides among those who have served in the military. More...
In recent months the CDC has come under increasing pressure from agency insiders and other sources who question whether political or corporate pressure have resulted in “deficient, incomplete and/or muted reports, studies or Health Consultations.” Three cases stand out: what critics have called the CDC’s “indefensible handling” of the issue of formaldehyde in FEMA trailers; a study on toxic dumping sites in the Great Lakes region; and community testing for the toxic dust beryllium around Brush Wellman plant in Elmore.
In other words has a sacred trust between the nation’s top public health agency and the people it’s sworn to protect been broken? More...
In what could be one of the most clever responses to a Senate tax inquiry to date, John Copeland, Kenneth Copeland’s son and CEO of Kenneth Copeland Ministries, walked into the Dallas IRS office yesterday and offered the ministry’s cooperation should the agency pursue a church tax inquiry. The CBS Dallas station broke the story. The results of any IRS examination are not available to the public. More...
A Florida televangelist is facing charges of domestic violence.
The Bay County Florida Sheriff’s Office posted an incident report alleging that Markus Bishop of the Faith Christian Family Church punched his wife “in the left eye with a closed fist” on March 16th. Bishop’s attorney Waylon Graham says his client “did not intentionally punch his wife” but claims she was intoxicated and was “flailing away at him.” Graham says Bishop will submit a plea of not guilty at his upcoming arraignment. Bishop’s church issued a statement saying, “We are saddened by the recent incidents involving our pastors.”
Today the FBI and the Department of Justice indicted 19 people involved in a foreclosure scam that netted nearly $12 million from almost 120 homeowners from all over the country, primarily in California. It’s a type of scam that CBS Chief Investigative Correspondent Armen Keteyian first reported on last July.
A CBS News investigation revealed for the first time the number of suicides and suicide attempts by veterans treated by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Here’s more of our interview with the Vietnam veteran featured in our report. More...
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