comments A government accountability watchdog group filed a complaint with the House Ethics Committee on Tuesday, demanding Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Tx., be expelled from Congress for his alleged role in what a federal investigator described as a concerted effort on the part of top Veterans Affairs officials to smear a sexual assault victim. The complaint, filed by the Campaign for Accountability (CfA), draws on a recent report from the VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) describing efforts at the highest levels of the agency to undermine the department's probe into a woman's allegation that a contractor had assaulted her in a VA hospital. The report outlines a number of "troubling" issues, including allegations that VA Secretary Robert Wilkie disparaged the woman after personally looking into her background.