SO IT’S A CASE OF INCOMPETENCE EXACERBATED BY DISHONESTY: Obama Administration Knew About VA’s Secret Wait Lists For Years. “The current VA scandal involving secret waiting lists that led to preventable veteran deaths at the Phoenix VA Medical Center claimed the scalp of Obama-appointed former VA Secretary Eric Shinseki, who resigned at the end of last month. Former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said that President Obama only found about the VA wait-list scandal from watching the news. But the Obama administration knew that an internal VA investigation into secret ‘paper’ waiting lists was conducted in 2010 under Shinseki.”