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Bingaman wants probe into VA ‘sedition’ investigation
Last Update: 02/08/2006 8:38:55 AM By: Associated Press
(AP) - Was it criticism? Or sedition?
Democratic U-S Senator Jeff Bingaman wants Veterans Affairs Secretary James Nicholson to do a thorough inquiry of his agency’s investigation into whether a letter critical of the Bush administration by a VA nurse amounted to “sedition.”
Bingaman says merely opposing government policies and expressing a desire for change is not a reason to suppose someone is involved in illegal subversive activity.
The VA investigated nurse Laura Berg last year. It cleared her of wrongdoing, but the VA says it had to investigate any act it said potentially represented sedition.
Bingaman says such investigations raise the very real possibility of chilling legitimate political speech.
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