hospital in shreveport called overton brooks. the whistle-blower is a licensed clinical social worker there and he accused that v.a. facility of the following: maintaining a secret wait list and manipulating the official electronic wait list, using gaming strategies to manipulate reported wait times -- ex-, holding appointments or entering them into the system that the patient requested an out-of-date appointment when this this ajust wasn't true. providing group that i remembe y appointments and counting these are an appointment as a primary care provider which they were clearly not. these aren't just allegations. i've also personally seen e-mails that the whistle-blower provided. and that's shown that this secret list could contain up to 2,700 veterans. it also seems to confirm that while waiting for appointments, 37 of those veterans died. since hearing these allegations, i've sent a letter demanding a full investigation into overton brooks to the inspector general at the v.a., and i have confirmed that that is happening; that