Listen as Larry spoke with Luke Rosiak, an Investigative reporter for The Daily Caller News Foundation, regarding his latest article, VA IG Findings Create A Serious Credibility Problem For Shulkin In Hacking Claims.
VA IG Findings Create A Serious Credibility Problem For Shulkin In Hacking Claims
Department of Veteran Affairs Secretary David Shulkin’s insinuation to Congress that the department had been hacked was not based in fact, the agency’s inspector general said Tuesday.
The accusations raise serious questions about whether Shulkin attempted to mislead Congress by implying that an incriminating email attributed to his chief of staff might not be authentic because someone had stolen her identity.
The only evidence of that, it turns out, consisted of an email from a comcast.net address sent hours before he made the assertion. Shulkin implied there was a longstanding pattern of someone convincingly impersonating chief of staff Vivica Simpson’s work email.
“Given the ‘External’ markings and the comcast.net email domain, it is obvious from the face of the ‘Vivieca Wright Simpson’ email that it did not originate from the VA email system,” the IG wrote.[Read More]
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