there's a sworn affidavit submitted by donald bider that said i questioned her authority and that's why i was transferred out of the chief of staff offices because i questioned her authority in congress. i don't remember actually mentioning donna bider's name personally during my original testimony. through all of this, i have always placed the veterans ahead of me, essentially. and today i think we should focus on the veterans. because of the way i was brought up i will always take a stand for this population's extremely vulnerable at this time. you remember i made reference to the e-mail in november of 2012 that's part of the packet that i submitted where i questioned the irregularities of the consults. i also noticed that there was a number of patients at the review of the number of colon cancers that were entering the system but later appearing with advanced cancer. i did this as a team player, asking for a briefing to all of the chief of staff. i was rebuffed. i want to go on the record to be more specific. one, i witnessed the systematic deletion of 179 consults. two, the systemat