tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post110854416475533319..comments2024-03-18T17:01:07.165-07:00Comments on The Provocateur: The Deafening Silence of Congressman Miller and General Shinsekimike volpehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02999118519606254362noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post-65575448664733031932010-05-14T18:31:54.725-07:002010-05-14T18:31:54.725-07:00Mike
Now that Chacko is gone, you can investigate ...Mike<br />Now that Chacko is gone, you can investigate Kumar, Visn 12 head of imaging. He fits the Chacko model of management, Psychopath nut who intimidates, fabricates and lies to achieve his end. He has help though from Murawsky and friends who have suppressed investigations of his poor management resulting in waste, fraud and abuse. One IG report did finally make it out and report that gross medical care at the Milwaukee Va resulted in a patient's death who was never informed of a gross medical errors performed commencing with a major medical error by a radiologist- I wonder who that was.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post-4767031759543041532010-05-13T19:02:57.653-07:002010-05-13T19:02:57.653-07:00Chacko is a full-feldged lunatic who should never ...Chacko is a full-feldged lunatic who should never hold a leadership position again. I know her, have done business with places she has ravaged and can tell you Mike Volpe not only speaks the truth but is 100% accurate in his assessment of her character. She should take her military pension, sell her 15,000 square foot house in Montana and take care of herself rather than to continue to drag the good name of the VA through the gutter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post-6305572846356601112010-05-13T16:33:53.597-07:002010-05-13T16:33:53.597-07:00Chacko is washed up and has no one to support her ...Chacko is washed up and has no one to support her now. She is hoping to make some money as a whistleblower but probably has little chance of success since she has always been the corrupt one. The Congressman and General would do all of us a great service now to explain why Chacko is not (or no longer) credible. If these men were "duped" they could partially regain their honor by explaining why they were duped and how they will be more careful next time. It's not a sin to make an honest mistake, particularly if you learn from it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post-74157934312959433672010-05-13T16:10:32.590-07:002010-05-13T16:10:32.590-07:00Gentlemen, the silence IS actually deafening to th...Gentlemen, the silence IS actually deafening to those of us who live in NORTH CAROLINA and actually ARE medical whistleblowers/public servants egregiously wronged AND have been IGNORED by Congressman Miller and his deep-blue, snobbish ilk FOR YEARS.<br /><br />Yet Miller will jump several state lines in order to service Dr. Chacko . . . whose case for whistle-blowing is circumstantial at best . . . but whose cause serves his political agenda.<br /><br />Leaders in this state do NOT act. Leaders in this state wink and nod at criminals - if money and/or big names are involved. Leaders in this state have been DEAF, DUMB and BLIND while their "ordinary" constituents PLEADED for their help.<br /><br />North Carolina ranks #5 on a list of the most corrupt states in this nation published just this week. <br /><br />The only reason it doesnt' rank #1 is because our legal system is crap and our Attorney General is useless.<br /><br />Dr. Chacko has representatives in PA. She needs to be talking to them.<br /><br />Brad Miller needs to look homeward.<br /><br />And good Lord, PLEASE don't talk to me about "privacy" after so many people have hidden behind it in my case to hide their own despicable deeds - deeds that happened on the public's dime and did not serve the public's welfare.Dr Mary Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03322145253802521377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post-64219708166884436422010-05-13T13:57:26.372-07:002010-05-13T13:57:26.372-07:00First of all, Congressman Miller is really busy si...First of all, Congressman Miller is really busy since I've been trying to get comment from him and General Shinseki since last August. So, wow. I didn't expect a call right away but maybe sometime in the next eight months. <br /><br />Second, these are the same charges that Dr. Chacko made and Congressman Miller echoed in his letter last year, so, yes, he should be defending her if he still believes her.<br /><br />She's making claims in the Pittsburgh Tribune that she was fired for being a whistle blower. It's imperative that those that supported her last time explain themselves. <br /><br />Congressman Miller has no jurisdiction to make hiring decisions at the Pittsburgh VA. Yet, he wrote said letter anyway. No one forced him to, and now he has the responsibility of following through. General Shinseki has no business micromanaging the head of radiology at the Pittsburgh VA, and yet, he did. Now, he has a responsibility. These are people in power and their actions have consequences and now it's time they lived up to those consequences. <br /><br />Again, you don't know my motives, my sources, and certainly not the motives of my sources, so you are simply speculating.mike volpehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02999118519606254362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post-64061561211262980672010-05-13T12:59:30.735-07:002010-05-13T12:59:30.735-07:00Hi Mike,
There is nothing deafening about the sil...Hi Mike,<br /><br /><b>There is nothing deafening about the silence from Congressman Miller and Secretory Shinseki. </b><br /><br />Your theory being that if Congressman supported her the first time he needs to do it every other time is simply not true.<br /><br />Leaders may act one way based on the concerns and information provided to them at that time. All they did was to delay the termination to get a chance to make sure a whistle blower is not being crucified for speaking up.<br /><br />How to you know that they have not done more work to know that now Pittsburgh VA has done more work and justified their termination.<br /><br />I do not think our congressman or Secretory have a duty every time some blogger or a reporter wants their reaction to a development. Simply they have a lot of other issues to attend to.<br /><br />I think neither you nor I have enough information available to us to make up our mind if the termination of Dr. Chacko was a retaliation or not. We do not know if the charges made by Dr. Chacko are correct or not.<br /><br />The prime concern for the sake of veterans is that agency need to move fast and make sure that Veterans are provided with state of art and safe evaluation and treatment at the Pittsburgh VA.<br /><br />Just because the Congressman or Secretory has not made a public statement on the issue does not equal to a deafening Silence.<br /><br />I agree with George Love that if privacy of Dr Chacko has been violated that is a serious offense. I do not know if those providing the information to a blogger are protected by secrecy of the source. <br /><br />I have a feeling that lot more news will come out as time goes by so let us not pronounce anyone guilty before all the facts come out. <br /><br />~Vijay MehtaVijay Mehta M.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12014667196204880772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post-8946472727039769552010-05-13T09:39:33.803-07:002010-05-13T09:39:33.803-07:00The greatest Irony, George, is that everything I&#...The greatest Irony, George, is that everything I've ever said about Dr. Chacko vis a vis the Pitt VA has been verified by none other than Dr. Chacko herself in her memo.<br /><br />http://shampeerreview.blogspot.com/2010/05/following-memorandum-will-illustrate.htmlmike volpehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02999118519606254362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post-36055473758297628242010-05-13T09:23:31.116-07:002010-05-13T09:23:31.116-07:00George, with all due respect, first, hearsay is a ...George, with all due respect, first, hearsay is a legal term not a journalistic one. It's absurd to apply a legal term to a piece of journalism.<br /><br />In your view of the world, no one would ever say anything about anything since eeveything is complicated and no one ever knows anything for sure. <br /><br />If that's the case, wouldn't the letter and General Shinseki's subsequent effort have been hasty. If they now don't know everything, they certainly didn't know everything then and that didn't stop them then from acting. You can't have it both ways.<br /><br />You neither know my motives, my sources, and certainly not the motives of my sources, and yet, you speculate about all of it. Then, you turn around and accuse my of not following strict ethics. Again, you'd like to have it both ways. <br /><br />Finally, why are you looking forward to the day that Dr. Chacko is vindicated? After all, aren't these issues "complicated"? How do you know she's right? Here you are again weighing in on one side while also saying it is perfectly appropriate for Shinseki and Miller to wait. If you want them to wait, then you too should simply wait and not weigh in. <br /><br />It's interesting that while you demand total silence from me and my sources you have no problem weighing in with your opinion. So, if you are allowed to speak freely, why are you so against those in Chacko's cross hairs also speaking freely.<br /><br />I stand by everything I have ever written about Chacko and she's weelcome to speak to me anytime.mike volpehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02999118519606254362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post-10768837863526223582010-05-13T09:07:43.614-07:002010-05-13T09:07:43.614-07:00Dr. Chacko's termination is a complicated matt...Dr. Chacko's termination is a complicated matter, in that only the deciding officials know the real motive. The articulated reaon is merely a pretext. The working assumption is what we refer to as a mixed motive, that is reprisal /retaliation for (1)whistle blowing and (2) prior EEO activity. Silence is not deafening, it is appropriate for all parties concerned while the issues are investigated and subjected to discovery proceedings in the appropriate legal forum. It is interesting that the basis for much of your writing on Dr. Chacko is based on information that could only be given to you outside the scope of anyone's legal authority to share that information and thus be a violation of the privacy act, which would indicate that your source has no qualms about violating federal statues for thier own personal motives. Of course that only applies to those statements that are truthful. I do not believe that a lie is a violation of the privacy act. It is fitting and just that we have a legal system so that people are not tried in the press which often times makes conclusions on half truths, innuendos, false assumption and erroneous conclusions which are supplied by individuals with their own bias and motives as a means of character assasination. I believe that you have arrived at faulty conclusions relative to Dr. Chacko based on ojectionable hearsay. I look forward to the day that Dr. Chacko will prevail in the apprpriate legal forum and I will keep you advised. Sincerely, George H. Love, JrGeorge H. Love, Jr.noreply@blogger.com