In the case of Army veteran Slade Douglas, who was awarded $6.8 million in January 2026, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) played a central role by initiating the chain of events through what legal filings characterized as a “government-sanctioned swatting”.
According to court records and legal claims, the VA’s involvement included:
Retaliatory Reporting: An employee of the VA’s Veterans Crisis Line (VCL) allegedly made a false report of suicidal ideation against Douglas. This occurred after Douglas had filed a formal discrimination complaint against the VA with the President of the United States.
False Allegations: The VA contacted the LAPD to request a wellness check based on these manufactured claims, intentionally labeling Douglas a threat despite no evidence of a mental health crisis.
Destruction of Evidence: According to disclosures from the National Archives and Records Administration, the VCL intentionally deleted recordings of the phone calls from that day. These recordings reportedly contained the false suicide claims used to trigger the police response.
Inter-Agency Conflict: Douglas’s legal team argued that the VA used government resources to “silence” a veteran advocate. The lawsuit alleged that the VA’s actions transcended local jurisdiction, forming an inter-agency conspiracy that violated Douglas’s constitutional rights.
unfortunately, veteran law makers are sometimes the biggest clowns to fellow veterans. They look at it as they got theirs, so who cares for you…John McCain was notorious for being anti-veteran pro defense spending. He looked at veteran military pay as cutting into his DOD contract spending that he loved.
False it does not work, as a 100% Disabled Veteran battling many serous health issues by VA home is being foreclosed by SHellPoint with NO HELP for Veterans
After reading several articles about this, I can honestly say that his story doesn’t make sense. He says he was driving to work as a security guard at a dope farm. However, he was dressed in shorts and a hoodie? He says he didn’t want to miss his shift, but drove into a line of Federal Immigration Officers conducting a lawful operation and he just wanted to tell them that he worked there and didn’t want to miss work? Really? He says they aggressively took him into custody because he was trying to comply with their orders and he says he didn’t resist at all. Just too many inconsistencies to believe he was just caught up accidentally. If you saw a law enforcement action taking place, you don’t drive into it. You turn around and leave the area so the officers can conduct their duty safely. Those officers are looking for the people illegally in our country and thwarting off the people that are trying to stop them from doing their job. Sounds like he was trying to agitate the situation and got himself into a bad situation.
It is really easy to write your name in support of this act. look I support veterans. If there is so much support, why doesn’t anyone have the guts to bring it up for a vote? Maybe it’s because you only support it on paper. I’m really surprised that veterans are stopping this from being passed. I believe the House and the Senate should vote to pass this and be done with it. No Funding? Stop spending foolishly.
Hi Keith,
I am attempting the same. I served 83-89 on fast attack LA class.
Please join Submariner’s Advocacy Group on Facebook, and check out their webpage.
It occurred to me that in addition to the normal “air” we were breathing, we also were breathing the compressed air in our EAB masks from the LP Air system. Although there were filters on this system, as far as I recall there was no “monitoring” of the air to verify the %O2, and %CO2 in the compressed air system.
Retired Air Force JAG in fact. Possibly reserve JAG. $8 Billion is the published estimated cost, I believe. The exact amount EXTRA authorized in the NDAA for 2026. Any connection??? I know this much…I’m eligible, and an extra $1200 per month might have kept me out of post-military jobs that caused at least one additional injury. Hindsight is 20/20 and if wishes were fishes no one would go hungry. Still, one has to wonder, with 300 plus house members co-sponsoring, and 77 or so senators, why is it still lingering over “cost” when Congress gives the Pentagon $8 billion extra without any apparent explanation? The ‘cost’ objection is specious.
I’d like to know what can be done to expedite medical needs
In the case of Army veteran Slade Douglas, who was awarded $6.8 million in January 2026, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) played a central role by initiating the chain of events through what legal filings characterized as a “government-sanctioned swatting”.
According to court records and legal claims, the VA’s involvement included:
Retaliatory Reporting: An employee of the VA’s Veterans Crisis Line (VCL) allegedly made a false report of suicidal ideation against Douglas. This occurred after Douglas had filed a formal discrimination complaint against the VA with the President of the United States.
False Allegations: The VA contacted the LAPD to request a wellness check based on these manufactured claims, intentionally labeling Douglas a threat despite no evidence of a mental health crisis.
Destruction of Evidence: According to disclosures from the National Archives and Records Administration, the VCL intentionally deleted recordings of the phone calls from that day. These recordings reportedly contained the false suicide claims used to trigger the police response.
Inter-Agency Conflict: Douglas’s legal team argued that the VA used government resources to “silence” a veteran advocate. The lawsuit alleged that the VA’s actions transcended local jurisdiction, forming an inter-agency conspiracy that violated Douglas’s constitutional rights.
unfortunately, veteran law makers are sometimes the biggest clowns to fellow veterans. They look at it as they got theirs, so who cares for you…John McCain was notorious for being anti-veteran pro defense spending. He looked at veteran military pay as cutting into his DOD contract spending that he loved.
False it does not work, as a 100% Disabled Veteran battling many serous health issues by VA home is being foreclosed by SHellPoint with NO HELP for Veterans
After reading several articles about this, I can honestly say that his story doesn’t make sense. He says he was driving to work as a security guard at a dope farm. However, he was dressed in shorts and a hoodie? He says he didn’t want to miss his shift, but drove into a line of Federal Immigration Officers conducting a lawful operation and he just wanted to tell them that he worked there and didn’t want to miss work? Really? He says they aggressively took him into custody because he was trying to comply with their orders and he says he didn’t resist at all. Just too many inconsistencies to believe he was just caught up accidentally. If you saw a law enforcement action taking place, you don’t drive into it. You turn around and leave the area so the officers can conduct their duty safely. Those officers are looking for the people illegally in our country and thwarting off the people that are trying to stop them from doing their job. Sounds like he was trying to agitate the situation and got himself into a bad situation.
Now is the time!!! The Democrats can get it introduced with the DHS funding bill.
NO RICHARD STAR ACT, NO DHS FUNDING!!
PERIOD!!!!!!!
This is BS how hard is it to order CPAP supplies.
It is really easy to write your name in support of this act. look I support veterans. If there is so much support, why doesn’t anyone have the guts to bring it up for a vote? Maybe it’s because you only support it on paper. I’m really surprised that veterans are stopping this from being passed. I believe the House and the Senate should vote to pass this and be done with it. No Funding? Stop spending foolishly.
Hi Keith,
I am attempting the same. I served 83-89 on fast attack LA class.
Please join Submariner’s Advocacy Group on Facebook, and check out their webpage.
It occurred to me that in addition to the normal “air” we were breathing, we also were breathing the compressed air in our EAB masks from the LP Air system. Although there were filters on this system, as far as I recall there was no “monitoring” of the air to verify the %O2, and %CO2 in the compressed air system.
Retired Air Force JAG in fact. Possibly reserve JAG. $8 Billion is the published estimated cost, I believe. The exact amount EXTRA authorized in the NDAA for 2026. Any connection??? I know this much…I’m eligible, and an extra $1200 per month might have kept me out of post-military jobs that caused at least one additional injury. Hindsight is 20/20 and if wishes were fishes no one would go hungry. Still, one has to wonder, with 300 plus house members co-sponsoring, and 77 or so senators, why is it still lingering over “cost” when Congress gives the Pentagon $8 billion extra without any apparent explanation? The ‘cost’ objection is specious.