The chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee is accusing Washington Monthly magazine of publishing “blatantly false” statements that seem aimed at dismissing the healthcare scandal at the Department of Veterans Affairs, in a story that was published with the guidance of someone with direct links to the VA.

The VA may have benefited from a favorable editorial hand at Washington Monthly, according to emails obtained by the Washington Examiner’s media desk. Those emails show senior editor Phillip Longman, who was appointed to the VA’s Commission of Care in 2015 by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., acted as a consultant for the more than 8,000-word expose, titled “The VA Isn’t Broken, Yet.”