Guest commentary: FOIA is a tool for VA reform

Guest post by Kristina Brown, Hilary Dockray and Paul Sullivan
The Department of Veterans Affairs has already treated a staggering 537,000 Iraq and Afghanistan War veteran patients since their return home from combat. The situation grows more ominous every day: One new, first-time Iraq/Afghanistan war veteran patient walks into a VA medical facility every five minutes.

These facts are now public because Veterans for Common Sense regularly requests information from VA under the Freedom of Information Act.

VCS is the only organization regularly sending FOIAs to VA about Iraq and Afghanistan. Over the past eight years, VCS has made hundreds of FOIA requests to VA and other agencies. Many resulted in the discovery of vital information casting new light on the devastating human and financial consequences of the wars. Read more...