I just ran across an article on Sen. Bingaman asking the VA to apologize to a nurse for investigating a letter written by a nurse that was critical of Smirky. She was investigated for 'sedition'. Chilling indeed.
Here is an earlier article:
http://www.kobtv.com/index.cfm?viewer=storyviewer&id=24086&cat=ABQMETROALBUQUERQUE (AP) - The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico wants the government to apologize to a nurse who was investigated after she criticized the Bush administration.
The ACLU says the Department of Veterans Affairs seized Laura Berg’s office computer but found no evidence she used it to write a critical letter.
Berg wrote a letter in September to a weekly newspaper criticizing how the administration handled Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq War.
The group is seeking an apology from the VA human resources chief to remedy what it calls the chilling effect on the speech of employees.
and here is the Bingaman article:
http://www.kvia.com/Global/story.asp?S=4469767UNDATED Democratic U-S Senator Jeff Bingaman wants Veterans Affairs Secretary James Nicholson to do a thorough inquiry of his agency's investigation into whether a letter critical of the Bush administration by a V-A nurse amounted to "sedition."
Bingaman says merely opposing government policies and expressing a desire for change is not a reason to suppose someone is involved in illegal subversive activity.
The V-A investigated nurse Laura Berg last year.
It cleared her of wrongdoing, but the V-A said it had to investigate any act it said potentially represented sedition.