One of the more intriguing aspects of the VA health care scandal is the way the paperwork was creatively done to make it appear that the system was operating as it was meant to. This took serious, sustained effort, as the AP reports:
Fake appointments, unofficial logs kept on the sly and appointments made without telling the patient … among tricks used to disguise delays in seeing and treating veterans at Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics.
But weren’t the people doing this worried that their deceptions and subterfuge might be discovered? Evidently not. At the conclusion (more than two years ago) of an internal investigation (seem to be a lot of those going on these days) a:
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