of manipulating the data with regard to these wait times. with regard to the audit released today. 13% of the schedulers at the 731 v.a. hospitals and clinics that the v.a. itself investigated. 13% say they were told by their supervisors to falsify appointment schedules. in other words, 13% of the nearly 4,000 v.a. employees were ho were interviewed were told to cook the books by their bosses. 76% of the v.a. facilities audited had at least one instance of schedulers changing the dates to make the wait time not look so bad. >> one of the reasons that was done was because the v.a. officials in the cities, if they showed a certain level of competence got money. they got bonuses. >> they got bone uses. that's the first thing that sloan gibson who is the replacement for eric