VA spokeswoman Susan Carter said the department does not comment on pending litigation, adding that WCW has "spent years falsely claiming that VA's lifesaving research with canines was not scientifically necessary."Īccording to Carter, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has cited the necessity of using animals for medical research at the VA. "We filed this open records lawsuit because taxpayers have a right to know how our money is being spent so we can hold the VA accountable for forcing Americans to pay for this wasteful kitten catastrophe," said Justin Goodman, vice president of advocacy and public policy at WCW. Read Next: Navy Fires Destroyer Commander Amid Investigation WCW said it solicited all documents and records of such experiments from the VA through a Freedom of Information Act request in January, adding that it brought the lawsuit when the department failed to respond after eight months.
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