Why do they do it?
First it was NBC television anchor Brian Williams and now Veterans Administration Secretary Robert McDonald exaggerating their resumes.
The VA secretary was the latest, having been caught lying about serving in the special operations forces during a conversation with a homeless veteran last month.
McDonald, of course, was installed in the department just last July when the VA was dealing with the scandal of patient wait times — and subsequent patient deaths — at clinics around the country. He supposedly was a squeaky clean veteran who went on to become a corporate executive with Proctor & Gamble.
The VA secretary was in Los Angeles in January as part of a tour to locate and house homeless veterans when just such a vet said he’d served in the special forces.