Bush Administration push for privatization may have helped create Walter Reed 'disaster'

• TWO MORE SUBPOENAS FILED BY CONYERS COMMITTEE (making six).

• IAD Worldwide (Halliburton spinoff) details:

Key quote: "Before the contract, over 300 federal employees provided facilities management services at Walter Reed, according to the memorandum, but that number dropped to less than 60 the day before IAP took over.

"Yet instead of hiring additional personnel, IAP apparently replaced the remaining 60 federal employees with only 50 IAP personnel," Waxman writes."

The Bush Administration's drive for privatization may be responsible for the "deplorable" outpatient care for soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, according to a top Democratic Congressman investigating the scandal, which has already led to the resignation of the Secretary of the US Army.

[1/6th of the staff after privatization! Imagine the savings!!]

NPR spun the story today to blame the VA, which has nothing to do with the ARMY's privatization scandal.