More lies from this administration. If there’s a problem, instead of FIXING it, they spend more energy on covering it up and lying about it. Gee I wonder if they are wearing their flag lapel pins when they work on covering up this shit and let veterans continue to suffer. CBS News has reported that the VA has lied about the number of suicides and attempted suicides among veterans.

New documents reveal the number of veterans who commit or attempt suicide are substantially higher than the number the Department of Veterans Affairs has stated in the past - including what CBS News was told during an exclusive investigation.

In a series of e-mails, Dr. Ira Katz, the head of Mental Health for the VA, also made it clear that he did not want the damaging information revealed.

Last November, a CBS News investigation yielded startling results.

According to data from 45 states, 6,256 men and women who had served in the armed forces took their own lives in 2005 - that’s 120 suicides every week.

There’s a class action lawsuit to be heard in San Francisco, charging the department’s “inadequate care” is “unable to deal with the growing incidence of depression and suicides.”

Gordon Erspamer, the lawyer for the veterans groups, “We find that the VA has simply not devoted enough resources … They don-t have enough psychiatrists.”

A recent RAND report found that “300,000 U.S. troops - about 20 percent of those deployed - are suffering from depression or post-traumatic stress from serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.”