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What's the v.a. saying about this. >> in essence that they're chipping away at the backlog. v.a. officials note that all those returning iraq and afghan war vets have contributed to the doubling of the case load for va claims workers. and that those workers none the less have processed more than a million cases a year for the last three years. still, they said senior executives in the veterans benefits administration will not be receiving any performance awards for fiscal year 2012. those instead being invested to accelerator backlog, john jon. >> jon: the v.a. office longest claims gave bonus...

Have on procedures and times actually allotted. you'll see average hours needed is the longer bar. in most cases from felonies to misdemeanors to juvenile, average hours available often several hundred hours left, according to national advisory counsel on criminal justice standards and goals. we want to seed this with real numbers and jody i want to bring you in. >> it's not just time but resources. there's salary differences in prosecutors and public defenders office that dictate our value system as a country has leaned more toward the prosecution of these individuals tha rather than adequate...

And the other thing is the i.g. basically cast this as a bureaucrat snafu, a short cut they took to try to deal with a huge case load. but if you're trying to reduce the amount of work you have to do, why would you keep putting out these letters that generate hundreds, if not thousands, of pages in responses. it just doesn't quite add up. >> yeah. david ignatius, it doesn't seem to add up. a bureaucrat snafu it seems to be more than that. what are you looking for in the coming days and weeks and what are you looking for out of this investigation? >> the irs scandal really is a case of, as the ...

Medical error can happen particularly with medication. that's what this study found it was the handoff. if you you are just in charge of your patient's case load, you don't makes a many mistakes. one of the big estherers they found that doctors are making you don't write the correct prescription. that's troubling it is troubling. right medication. it has to be spelled correctly. we have to have the correct dose, the correct number of times per day to prescribe it we have to be very careful to make hauer there is no interaction. we have to remember to check that the patient is not allergic to t...

Deployments. the supreme court is adding to its high-profile case load, announcing it will hear a challenge to arizona's immigration law. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams has more on that. >> reporter: having already agreed to rule on the obama health care law and on how texas and other states carve up districts for their seats in congress, the justices jumped into another controversial issue animating the presidential campaign. how much power states have to control illegal immigration. >> power to the people! >> reporter: the court will consider whether parts of arizona's strict...