has there been any word what what is the reason behind the kind of surprise firing of james burton the deputy secretary of veterans affairs that essentially came out of nowhere for a lot of people to follow the what's going on over so yes it does come out of nowhere and the v.a. has not put out any official statement other to say that the secretary has lost confidence in mr burns ability to do the job however the scuttlebutt on the ground is that v.a. recently had fumbled a very high profile investigation into a sexual assault claim that involved a staffer on the house veterans affairs committee and by way of background the staffer reported a sexual assault at the d.c. v.a. medical center the v.a. came out and said after the office of the inspector general investigated that they could not substantiate the claim that was not true what happened was when they looked into it the v.a. is security cameras were not working so they couldn't substantiate the claim because the security cameras were not working for the spin that the a put on that was very negative and there were also rumors. the