Exclusive: VA conducted internal investigations into employees who attended vigil for Alex Pretti

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2. I doubt it was the VA itself, more likely OPM's direction

Hard to know. VA secretary Doug Collins is a trump appointed POS, so he could have brought it about, but typically that dude tries to appear above the fray. Office of Personnel Management on the other hand has been carrying out all sorts of nonsense. Their shyte is buried in bureaucratic detail so it's more or less invisible outside the agency in question