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>> reporter: then betrayed ag last month. the v.a.'s independent inspector general announcing in its none of the deaths there could but now a startling admission. the inspector general's office forced to admit wait times contributed to the deaths of the veterans. >> did it contribute to the >> wait lists contributed the >> yes. >> reporter: the admission pbyouseans airs whistleblowers o charging the oig softethe >> at its best, this report is a whitewash and its worst at a feeble attempt to cover. >> reporter: the inspector general's office saying they're not clairvoyant and can't say exactly ...

See. but i'm hearing all kinds of stories. i took my secretary of health with me down there to make sure the children were first safe, because they are children. we want them to be fed and have appropriate medical care and certainly be safe within the facilities themselves. and they're segregated. but one of the things i've heard since they have been there and it was reported when i was there, actually, that they were not only el salvador children but honduras and guatemala, but 90 children reported to be from india actually at the facility. and it was one of the case workers that told my secr...

President obama's pick to start the rehabilitation of the veterans affairs department says the effort is already under way. co the man temporarily in charge says it won't be easy and it won't be cheap. >> reporter: on the job just over six weeks, acting va secretary sloan gibson says it will take time to earn back veterans' trust but he told the senate veterans affairs committee today that veterans on long waiting lists are already seeing progress. >> we reached out to over 160,000 veterans to get them off wait lists and into clinics and made over 543,000 referrals for veterans to receive care...

Department doles out disability benefits and they treat veterans. health care for veterans. the scandal we've known about was on the health care side. wait lists and veterans not getting treatment and veterans dying and the department had admitted to those problems. this is the other side. just as much if not more money going to veterans disability payments and we knew they had a giant backlog. what's amazing about this is when they tried to get rid of that backlog, they cooked the books. what they were accused of doing on the healthcare side. like th gives you two choices. you can have the bo...

>> what i was trying to do is high l highlight the difference between g government bureaucracy and the real world. in the real world you wouldn't see people dying on these wait lists and think the answer was to just fraudulently change the wait list because there's no consequence for doing so. more people get their news from john stewart than anyplace else.