Starting next week, the Senate wades into the muck at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The Senate Armed Services Committee announced today that next Tuesday, March 6, a host of responsible Defense officials will parade to the Dirksen building to try to explain how conditions at the Army’s elite hospital complex deteriorated to the horrific conditions depicted in last week’s depressing Washington Post series.Perhaps the most anticipated testimony will come from the Army’s surgeon general, Lt. General Kevin C. Kiley. The Pentagon reacted to the Post investigation with near-unanimous horror and regret — Army Vice Chief of Staff General Richard Cody took personal responsibility in a Thursday press conference — and vowed to get to the heart of the problem. Kiley has been the exception. While he hasn’t challenged the facts that the paper reported, last week he attacked the expose as “one-sided” and assured reporters, “this is not a horrific, catastrophic failure at Walter Reed.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=181428