Senior U.S. military officers may have stalled a DOD investigation at the Dawood National Military Hospital in Afghanistan in order to protect the Obama administration during the 2010 midterm elections.

The Wall Street Journal reported on widespread corruption and neglect at Dawood in September 2011, but U.S. military officers had been discussing the issues since July 2010, according to a letter sent last week to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta by Rep. Jason Chaffetz.

Chaffetz is the chairman of the House Oversight subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense, and Foreign Operations.

In the letter, Chaffetz (R., Utah) demands that Panetta “promptly investigate” allegations that Lieutenant General William Caldwell retracted and delayed a request for DOD assistance investigating mismanagement at Dawood.



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