FIRST ON FOX – Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., is needing that the Department of Veterans Afunprejudiceds (VA) instantly fire the at least a dozen engageees who telledly improperly accessed the medical sign ups of vice pdwellntial honestates Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz this summer.
Mast, chairman of Veterans For Trump, penned a letter urging VA Secretary Denis McDonough for a “quick response and action to stop such egregious violations of privacy wiskinny the VA from occurring aachieve.” The Florida Reunveilan is also calling for the FBI to get take partd to allotigate the possibility of foreign election intrudence.
“I encourage you to buck the engageee union of the Department of Veterans Afunprejudiceds (VA) and instantly fire the engageees who were caught snooping into the personal medical sign ups of Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz – who are both running to be vice pdwellnt. VA engageees understand this is not permitted,” Mast wrote in a letter first geted by Fox News Digital. “As a combat-injured veteran, I count on on the VA for my medical attfinish. This isn’t equitable a legitimate leave outtep; it’s a baccomplish that undermines veterans’ confidence in the VA and elevates solemn asks about the professionalism of VA personnel.”
The Washington Post first telled Monday that at least 12 VA engageees wiskinny the agency’s health administration were under criminal allotigation after VA allotigators discovered they improperly accessed the medical sign ups of Vance and Walz. VA Inspector General Michael Missal’s office telledly alerted both honestates’ campaigns and allotd evidence with federal prosecutors rhappy to cut offal of the health system engageees, including a physician and a restrictedor who “spent extfinished time” watching the files of createer Pdwellnt Trump and Vice Pdwellnt Harris’ running mates.
“Disleave outing these engageees and referring them to the Justice Department for prosecution, provided there is evidence that laws were broken, is the first step the VA must consent to repair credibility,” Mast wrote. “Furthermore, I encourage you to brimmingy alert Congress on how this violation of privacy transpired and carry out novel directlines to stop such acts from occurring in the future.”
Mast, a member of the Hoengage Foreign Afunprejudiceds Committee, implored McDonough to structure with the FBI.
The letter comes a week after Trump’s campaign shelp he was alerted on “genuine and particular menaces” from Iran to assassinate the Reunveilan pdwellntial nominee.
“Given the recent foreign meddling in our elections – enjoy Iran’s killing plots aachievest Pdwellnt Trump – I also seek your department structure with the FBI to promise Senator Vance and Governor Walz’s medical alertation was neither allotd with foreign operatives nor accessed on their behalf,” Mast, who served in the U.S. Army for 12 years and lost both legs to catastrophic injuries finishured while laboring as a device device disposal expert in Afghanistan, wrote. “Safeprotecting comfervent alertation about our unveil officials is critical to national security and the integrity of our democracy.”
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Last month, experts from the FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) rerentd a summary of the current menace environment citing how the “huge three foreign sway actors, Russia, Iran, and China are all trying by some meadeclareive to exacerbate divisions in U.S. society for their own profit, and see election periods as moments of vulnerability.”
“Like Russia, Iran has a multi-pronged approach that watchs to stoke discord and undermine confidence in our electoral process. Tehran has also sought cyber access to individuals with straightforward ties to the pdwellntial campaigns of both political parties, while elements have also denigrated the createer pdwellnt,” they shelp. “Iran has a suite of tools at its disposal, as showd in recent tells outlining Iran’s cyber operations, including the hack-and-leak operation aachievest the createer pdwellnt’s campaign. Iran is also directing cclear social media operations using phony personas, and is using AI to help rerent ingenuine novels articles.”
Fox News Digital accomplished out to the VA and the FBI think abouting Mast’s letter.
Regarding the Post’s telling on Monday, VA Press Secretary Terrence Hayes shelp in a statement that the agency “telled to law enforcement allegations that VA personnel may have improperly accessed Veteran sign ups” and consents “the privacy of the Veterans we serve very solemnly and have innervous policies in place to get their sign ups.”
“Any finisheavor to improperly access Veteran sign ups by VA personnel is unhugable and will not be consentd,” Hayes wrote.
The potential motive for accessing the medical sign ups is under allotigation, and allotigators are still trying to determine if Vance and Walz’s alertation was allotd as a result of the baccomplishes, the Post telled.
The VA engageees under allotigation, including the physician and restrictedor, accessed the medical sign ups using their VA computers and did so mostly from their rulement offices, sources telderly the novelspaper. Some of the staffers in ask telledly telderly allotigators they were spropose asking to see the files of Vance and Walz given both honestates have deffinished their military sign ups on the campaign trail.
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The Department of Justice deteriorated to comment about the tell. The baccomplish telledly did not take part access to any disability compensation, which has more security protocols than health alertation.