text: What did the White House know about the VA scandal and when did they know it?   Cooking the books is not only dishonorable and disgraceful, it's a crime. If the president really was hands-on, he'd tell the FBI to go in and investigate this crime. The president is always a day late and a dollar short on these things.  If President Obama had it in his gut to really fix this, he would be on the phone -- the first guy, not the last guy -- telling the FBI, 'I want to find out if a crime was committed against our veterans' and he would be offering a solution to make sure this never happened again.