Walter Reed scandal - who's to blame?

Today the Army's surgeon general retired...er...was fired, in the wake of the Walter Reed Medical Center scandal regarding squalid patient conditions. There is something about this story that is just not right. Walter Reed is the biggest Army hospital. Many patients, many visitors, and right inside the beltway. How could it be that nobody noticed until now?

And how could the executive MD running the place, General Kiley, have let things get so bad? Either he is not worth his salt as a professional or is an incompetent manager. Considering his rank, both seem unlikely.

For me at least, this raises some question of where the motivation to hide the rats came from. As I said, no doctor with an iota of the Hippocratic oath could have let this happen under his watch. Certainly the military's medical services are stressed at this point. Has the White House ignored requests for more support? And too ashamed to let that be known?

Anyway, something smells of another fall guy scenario...