Dana Priest to be on Hardball in few minutes.

This could be good.

Edit: Forgot to mention it has to do with the Walter Reed Hospital article she wrote.

if you can.....thanks

I've always liked her.

hearings on the Hill about this Walter Reed problem. What SOB

Dana was thoroughly disgusted. More time should have been allowed for this portion of Chris' program. At least he had her on.

need at this facility.

Chris asked why this lack of money was not made know to the public since they would certainly be concerned and demand this be fixed or would donate to the cause. Americans are like that.

The bastard on the Hill!

When the brass comes through *every* effort is made to clean up, paint and otherwise make any given facility look as good as possible.

The brass usually do not make their own itinerary and are guided by local officers who are going to do everything in their power to make their facility and themselves look good.

this gets enough coverage that Congress will have to do an investigation.

asking them to look into the matter. I haven't received any response yet, and really don't expect more thsn a "canned" message letting me know that they received my email.

Besides they must spend some time in Okla. checking their pumpers (oil) and spending time with contributors. They probably don't know where Walter Reed is.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/18/AR2007021801335_2.html?referrer=emailarticle

Yesterday: By Dana Priest and Anne Hull
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, February 18, 2007; Page A01

Behind the door of Army Spec. Jeremy Duncan's room, part of the wall is torn and hangs in the air, weighted down with black mold. When the wounded combat engineer stands in his shower and looks up, he can see the bathtub on the floor above through a rotted hole. The entire building, constructed between the world wars, often smells like greasy carry-out. Signs of neglect are everywhere: mouse droppings, belly-up cockroaches, stained carpets, cheap mattresses.

This is the world of Building 18, not the kind of place where Duncan expected to recover when he was evacuated to Walter Reed Army Medical Center from Iraq last February with a broken neck and a shredded left ear, nearly dead from blood loss. But the old lodge, just outside the gates of the hospital and five miles up the road from the White House, has housed hundreds of maimed soldiers recuperating from injuries suffered in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/17/AR2007021701172.html

Army Times, yesterday:

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/02/tnsmedboards070217/