VUOTO: VA accused of waste, cover-up

“A lie cannot live forever,” said neurologist Robert Van Boven, quoting a phrase used by Martin Luther King and others going back to Victorian-era writer Thomas Carlyle.

Dr. Van Boven was removed in February 2008 from his position as director of Veterans Affairs’ Brain Imaging and Recovery Laboratory (BIRL) in Austin, Texas, after months of asking why the facility had spent millions of dollars to study traumatic brain injury without treating a single veteran.

To continue reading, click here