article_snippet: What's more, administrators in charge of the massive VA facility in greater Los Angeles may have been hiding wait times, and may have misled Congress on the delays and exactly how long veterans are being forced to wait for care, according to new information obtained by CNN.
article_snippet: The detailed new evidence comes from the Los Angeles VA's own internal documents obtained by CNN, and numerous medical and administrative sources confirmed the information.
article_snippet: sources say the backlog is happening even now.
article_snippet: A half-dozen medical and administrative sources inside the LA VA system corroborate these waits.
article_snippet: But that is also not true, according to the documents and sources inside the Los Angeles VA who spoke with CNN.
article_snippet: Los Angeles VA officials would not talk to CNN about the discrepancies but instead sent a statement saying that the "Greater Los Angeles and the Los Angeles VA nationwide continues to work very hard to get Veterans off waiting lists and into clinics to get the care clinics have earned and deserve.
article_snippet: " Despite the "retrospective data," the real truth, say the sources CNN has interviewed, is reflected in the internal LA VA documents obtained by CNN -- that wait times for many patients at the Los Angeles VA Medical Centers extends into weeks and months and are a serious problem.
article_snippet: This news of continuing delays in Los Angeles comes a year after reports of cover-ups and turmoil at the VA, which became a national scandal, where wait times, veterans' deaths and even secret waiting lists were revealed at the Los Angeles VA hospitals across the country.