again, mike kaufman. in your opinion, what would have been the benefits during your past surgeries had the va contributed to the vision registry? >> if my information was accessible to the va doctors when i first met them, rather than asking me about the surgeries i had, and thumbing through a two-inch stack of documents, they would have had access to -- better access to the information. they would have seen that the dod doctors -- needed to have preventive surgery within the year. and i told the doctor that. the doctor -- my word isn't as strong as the military doctors, that had made the suggestion to me at walter reed. >> okay. >> also, i'm a number. i'm a statistic. and it's meaningless. there's no research being done on the numbers. if my information and all of the other blinded veterans' information were in this data set, much more information could be discovered and we could direct ourselves forward to help us all much better. >> thank you. again, this is mike kaufman. mr. kebbel, thank you for your

you were specifically mentioned by congressman, mike kaufman in discussion with a va official how they this stuff. take a listen. >> did you ask for a meeting with dr. foote. >> i did not. >> oh, why didn't you ask for a meeting? here is somebody that was clearly at the center of the storm. you are there to understand what the process was. and yet you dent request a meeting with dr. foote? >> i at the time was concerned that it might interfere with the ig's investigation. >> you know, i think your concern was, it might interfere with the truth. and i got to tell you, how far this problem goes. because the fingerprints of y'all that are at this panel today are all over this problem. because i can tell you, you are not being forth right in your testimony. >> your response? >> i laughed pretty hard when i heard him say that he didn't do it because he was afraid of, interfering with the investigation or compromising the investigation. when he was here, organized a little party, he had some friendly veteran service officer groups that came in. and they had a little presentation where she ha

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