Is the Department of Health and Human Services following in the footsteps of the IRS? Well, not necessarily. At the IRS they just rely on unexplained hard drive crashes to cover their tracks and conceal wrongdoing. We’ll keep watching to see if this is just the tip of an iceberg of HHS corruption:
An email obtained by Congress shows the top official for Healthcare.gov at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under the Department of Health and Human Services, Marilyn Tavenner, instructed the agency’s top spokesman to “Please delete this email.”The instruction appears significant for several reasons: First, the email to be deleted included an exchange between key White House officials and CMS officials. Second, the email was dated October 5, 2013, five days into the disastrous launch of HealthCare.gov. Third, federal law requires federal officials to retain copies of –not delete– email exchanges. And fourth, the document to be deleted is covered under Congressional subpoena as well as longstanding Freedom of Information requests made by members of the media (including me).
In a letter today, House Energy and Commerce leaders asked Tavenner to explain why she asked her colleague to delete the email, and the letter questions whether there are other instances in which she instructed HHS staff to delete emails. The letter also asks for more details regarding Congressional subpoenaed documents, including Tavenner emails, that CMS recently said might be permanently lost; and it requests an explanation as to why redactions are made in some documents provided to Congress so far.
Source: Sharyl Attkinson
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dear RJ Monaco where do you get your information that the Affordable Care Act is good —are you not thinking right it is not it isnt an medical plan it is a wellness plan and preventative plan try to go when you are ill and see what happens if it is life threatening you will have to wait for months to see a doctor wake up
Lock all of them up
They are all dirty and just following obamas directives
Obummer is lower than a snakes belly in a wagon track.
This has got to stop! Put them in jail.
If they have violated Federal Laws, prosecute them, to the fullest extent of the law!!!!!!!!!!
unfortunately , just typical “government at work”
ACA a good thing? Really? How?
Delete Obamacare ,get even with the a-holes
Impeach him