Thats it for special report. Make it a great weekend. Greta goes on the record right now. Government contractors pretending to work and you are paying their salary. The whistle blower blowing the lid off obamacare right here on the record. Somebody has figured out how to a lot of money off of this deal to do nothing. A billion dollars. Your money gone. Poof. They would tell us to come in dressed professionally and to sit at our desk and act like we were working. And then this is shameful under any circumstances a night mayor at the v. A. But will anyone land in prison. If these accusations are true, someone should be going to jail. Marine jailed in mexico. His desperate 911 call. Im at the border of mexico right now. I crossed the border by accident and i have three guns in my truck. His mother goes on the record. First though a whistle blower goes on the record. She says 1. 2 billion of your tax money was pay to obamacare workers who were told to pretend to work. She was one of those workers paid to do nothing. Paula joins us for her First National tv interview. Paulla, nice to see you. Hi. Paulla, tell me, where did you work . How long did you work there and what did you do . I worked for a company contracted by circo to helpful fill the they have have with centers for medicare and medicaid services. I worked there from early
october to just before thanksgiving in 2013. Okay. In that time period, what did you see . I understand the contract was to process paper applications under obamacare. Did you see that work being done . It was done in such a small scale. In the from months i was there i processed at best a dozen applications. Most of the time we were sitting around doing nothing. That was the gist of it. Did anybody say anything like why dont we have any work or why isnt anything being done . Yes, i did. Others did. Early on we got a lot of excuses about the health care. Gov site not working properly. Once that was working properly, the case was still the same. As it is today as well as you are hearing from other employees that still work there. Were they getting any
specific instructions employees about the work or why they didnt seem to have a high volume of work . They mostly alcoholicked it it chokd it up to system problems chocked it up to system problems. I have been a supporter of obamacare all along. My experience there was so disappointing and i exal contacted claire miscass kills office because i wanted them to know what was going on out there and how i felt about that. What was the response from senator Claire Mccaskills office. First of all what did you tell them and second of all what was the senators response . I told them exactly what i had been saying all along, what i told channel 4 locally in st. Louis and what im telling you now that we were sitting around every day doing nothing and
applications were not getting processed and questions were not getting answered about that. They forwarded me to subcommittee on oversight of committee budgets in washington where i spoke to someone about the situation there. We tried to get some information. Cms said they were committed to working wither serco. They closely monitored the work that serco was doing. It doesnt say the quantity of work or ever on site to monitor. Did you ever have any sense that cmf was on site monitoring what was being done or not done . Well, in the short time i was there, they came once to my knowledge. But they never visited the site of the building that i worked on. I dont know how they can say they monitored the work
coming out of that building and supporting the knowing what i know and people that still work there. I want to say everybody who works in that building knows what what im saying is the truth. The people who came forward whether they chose to identify themselves or not are telling the truth as well. Why did you leave . I imagine. Why did you leave . Why did i leave . Because i was bored out of my mind. It was driving me crazy and i have a conscience. Thats not what i signed up for. Thats not what i wanted to work there for. I was excited to be a part of something that i supported and i couldnt have been more disappointed. Why do you think this happened . Why do you think that there is no work being done . Well, as i said before, i think somebody figured out how to make a lot of money off of this thing, some way, somehow. I know there is a lot of crookery and corruption and selfgain these days, for all i know maybe our own
politicians are benefiting from that. I dont know. Paulla, thank you for joining us. All right. Thank you. And you wont believe this one. But there is new information tonight about the former top watchdog for the Homeland Security department. We recently told you about a blistering congressional report showing former dhs acting director altered and delayed investigations in order to help his pals. Senior administration officials. Now there is more disturbing question. Is the whole watchdog system broken . The Washington ExaminerSusan Crabtree joins us. Thanks for having me. You wrote an article. Explain what a watchdog is in the government. How does it work in the government . Each agency, there are 73 different watchdogs that are attached to an agency. The will be in is that they have the same budget as the same agency, so they are not really independent. You would think that there is an act, 1978, that created these watchdogs after the watergate scandal. And they are supposed to act as the rooting out
corruption at the agency and be independent. They are getting their salary from the same higher ups that are from the whole budget. Is it broken this watchdog system . Well, the ethics experts and attorneys who have experience in these cases say definitely. They point to this case with Charles Edwards who had multiple allegations against him. And he actually was stepped aside just recently after the secretary jay johnson called on him to step aside. He was under investigation himself and hee j . Thats exactly right. It seems what we have found is that the allegations against him langished at this group, the council for inspectors general for integrity and efficiency. Thats the wash dog of the watchdog. We found it is actually pretty broken. We have sources telling us that the system doesnt work that these complaints against him languished for
years and years. Especially. Can think of anything more sick. Watchdog in every Single Agency that at least in one agency we know that at least the one instance very helping his pals. That watchdog. Then you have got for whatever reason, we now need to have watchdogs. We have a Watchdog Organization looking over the watchdog. The Watchdog Organization this watchdog looked other way because they didnt want i dont know why, they didnt do their job. Why even have these watchdogs . Thats why when you are the president and jay carney say the Inspector General for the v. A. Is going to get to the bottom of this i start to cringe a little bit. The system really is broken. The watchdog of the watchdog only meets, what i have been told, four times a year and lacks the tools and efforts really to look into this and do something about it. Is sigy, are these fulltime jobs . These are actually no,
different Inspector Generals from different agencies make up the cigi. They sit on the council. Jury on the their own trials . Their piers trials. Overseers see if they are doing the job is themselves. You can say that definitely they are piers. They have have the transportation Inspector General is looking into Charles Edwards problems. It took a subcommittee investigation. It took the release of the report just last month to get him on administrative leave. For a while there, he was still acting and he had all these allegations piling up against him. And he is he is the watchdog. Susan, thank you. And today a resignation in the wake of the Veterans Affairs health care scandal, the v. A. For secretary for health. One day after he and v. A. Secretary Eric Shinseki were grilled by lawmakers. Jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon. Jennifer, why did he step
down . Who is he and why did he step down . Well, greta. A senior v. A. Official says secretary shinseki demanded robert petzels resignation. He was slated to retire thisser i dont. His retirement announced last september. His replacement is from the same pines v. A. Medical center in illinois that came under fire this week for having secret wait lists for veterans. Last september, we reported on the record petzel told it a congressional hearing he quote had no regrets when he learned veterans died of legionnaires diseases where he recommended bonuses for the hospitals drars. The two more administrators came forward. Chief psychiatrist at the v. A. Medical center in st. Louis, he was removed from his job when he complained that psychiatrists treating veterans with ptsd were working only a few hours a
day, seeing half the patients they could. As patient suicides rose. They all got bonuses, you know. So that is the sad part. Because, you know in reality not doing a good job but in relation it looks like we are. He was fired when he complained that his bosses were delaying life saving clone colon ososcopies to cut costs. I i was treated like a leper, how dare you attack me or say what you are saying. Congressman jeff miller who is responsible for v. A. Oversight said robert petzels resignation is the pinnacle of political double speak since he only had a few more months on the job. Greta . Radio accountability or show or something in between . Joining us the Political Panel. John, is this resignation some form of accountability or, what . I think jennifer just laid out the case this is completely just for show. I think he had to go or go a little early after his performance this week before congress. You know, he was asked a simple question would someone be fired if it were proven that they had manipulated these waiting lists and created a secret waiving list . Apparently not if you are the watchdog at dhs. He couldnt answer that. He said i dont know if that would be the appropriate punishment or not. These people should be in jail. Democratic senators on the panel saying why didnt you make any sentence republicans calling for it of the i. D. Only has limited resource was. Get in the other Law Enforcement agencies and
this is a nationwide problem. In this isnt isolated i understand as shinawatra then secy said the other day. You need as much help as they company get. Neither gave impressive performance. Sen seq. Y. Sen seq. Y is not going anywhere for a while. Why this. This move was part of. I was there at the hearing and went around and talked to people about what his fate is on capitol hill. People said they are billing to give him a chance. The problem is he has been there for some time and this has been happening end his. The buck has to stop some place. I am a ventricle. Choose he was very popular. Let him go back to active duty. He inherited a huge mess. Awful im saying he has big
problems supporters up there. People really are looking for him to start showing some action here. They dont thism he has accepted stepped up to the plate yet. We will give shinseki to do their time. I heard Kathleen Sebelius rit away when things blew up. This is blowing up why is he asking for his head . He has the military brass as well. This week i spoke with the current army chief ray odierno. He stood up for him and strongly defended him and said there are problems at the v. A. Thats like the watchdogs watchdog standing up for the watchdog. He has a very distinguished military career. But you know the fact that the military is standing up for him. I mean, just look at this. This is his job. What strikes me about this is something john said, the bipartisan nature of these attacks. These arent just republicans. He they are not just red state democrats worried about reelection. This is balloon that. Even more question why is he still there . It wases white house worried. It comes on the heels of the irs scandal and obamacare rollout it speaks to wows official. They dont. The resignation is north going to do the trick. I know republicans and democrats both are deeply disturbed by this but the fact that people are not calling for his head when he sad all these years and people have died under. This not just that they have had to sit at their computer trying to log on for three months. People died. Think were citing memos back to 2010. Shuffling people around. If he knew about it if he did why didnt he do anything about it. 2013 a letter was sent to
president obama yesterday the chief of staff was asked why didnt you respond to this . Why did you ignore it . They went easier on shinseki yesterday than i saw at any of the hearings where Kathleen Sebelius was defending the health carrollout. Like you say you are talking about people who died. Panel, stay with us. Lets all go offtherecord for a minute. Washington, d. C. Is the city of no consequences. I have never seen anything like it. Theist targets the tea party spends 100 million on furniture, hands out millions to irs employees who owe back taxes. No consequences. Hhs 1. 2 billiondollar contract to it a company serco. Whistle blower says they arent actually doing any work but no consequences. Capitol hill, lots and lots of committees. They are supposed to monitor all these agencies to make sure bad things dont happen. Thats almost laughable. Lots of hearings, no consequences. Or in the case of the v. A. , lives are lost. Anyone responsible . Anyone know anything . V. A. Chief Eric Shinseki after it is exposed says is he mad as hell and president obama is angry. So what if he is mad as hell or angry. That doesnt do any of you was god. Each agency has a watchdog. Even the watchdogs are suspect. They seem to looked other way. Former edwards was under investigation for doing dastardly thing. No one owes anyone anything. No one takes responsibility,ens can sequences, admit it insane asylum. Barbara walters and letterman talking barbara lieu ebb ski. Call for help before he
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david letterman is apologizing to monica lewenski. Is he is sorry for all the relentless jokes and mocking like this top ten list first line of lewenskis book. Like i hate hate hate hate hate linda tripp. Number four, does this font make me look fat . Number three, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, no, it was mostly bad. Number two, by the time you read this i will be on to my next president. And the number one possible first line for monica
lewenskis new book is me and my big mouth. That was then and this is what letterman and walters are saying about lewenski now. I like monica. I felt that she has never had the chance to move on. When she came back and there was ininterview or article about her. Says she cant get a job. I started to feel bad because myself and other people with shows like this made relentless jokes about the poor woman. She was 21. She is 40 now. I was thinking oh lord the violence in the elevator. Is it funny because theyre just famous or overall with some perspective do you realize this is a sad human situation back with our Political Panel. These are are celebrities getting soft in their old age. Date letterman has h. Has said bad things about an
awful lot of people. Like the time that sarah palin took her 14yearold daughter to the yankees game and he said one awkward moment for sarah palin at the yankees game her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez and her daughter was 14. He actually was mistaken. He thought he was talking about the older one apparently. He hasnt apologized for that one. No, and i dont think he will. Lewenski is unique here in that unlike august the other characters in the situation that happened with her and president clinton. They have all been able to move on, including the woman who leaked the taped phone calls. All these people have been able to lead their lives. She has been frozen in time. She was victimized by the whole thing. She was very young, just in her early 20s and her life just basically stopped point was a good one. Its a little bit late. Career. The clintons are all doing great. Everyone else is doing fine. She was chasing a story. She wanted a scoop. Now she is pretending Barbara Walters didnt mock her. She didnt make cruel jokes not funny, like they are insulting some young girl to make them feel better about themselves who has been in this situation. Obviously she was of legal age. When you step back and think about that anywhere in society a 50someyearold man preying on a College Student practically. Which monica doesnt say. She says they were two consenting adults. Shes has handled it all rather gracefully in this last interview. She has not blaming anybody. Its true though that everyone else got something out of the deal except her. She stopped in time she was offered a good deal of money. She wrote a book. She certainly made the
rounds for herself. What about letterman . I like suddenly, all of a sudden now he suddenly sees that maybe he was nasty. You have seen some of that. Craig had a great monologue in recent years. Even celebrities, even Brittany Spears is a human being and sometimes we should really a human moment very human moment where he said i was an alcoholic and drunk and going through these problems maybe we should think about this and be funny and not just mean to people. I would like to see him apologize to the sarah palin jokes. That was horrible to willow. She was 14. Making cr