Two government watchdog groups are calling for senators to thoroughly vet President Biden’s pick for the number two spot at the Department of Veterans Affairs in part because she had authority over a system that left veterans’ personal information vulnerable, causing one federal investigative agency to conclude there was a "substantial likelihood of wrongdoing."
Tanya Bradsher, the chief of staff to VA Secretary Denis McDonough is Biden’s nominee to be deputy secretary. She has had authority over the VA’s Integrated Enterprise Workflow Solution, also known as the VIEWS system.
In August, the Office of Special Counsel asked the department to complete the investigation of VIEWS within 60 days. Now, almost a year later, the VA still has no answers.
"Yet under Secretary McDonough and Tanya Bradsher’s leadership, the VA has requested extensions every 60 days since then, repeatedly punting its obligations to investigate and report to OSC on these serious whistleblower disclosures," says a letter sent late Friday from Tristan Leavitt, president of Empower Oversight and Jacqueline Garrick, founder of Whistleblowers of America.
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The letter was sent to Senate Veterans Affairs Chairman Jon Tester, D-Mont., and ranking member Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., and obtained by Fox News Digital.
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