[Washington Post] Eric K. Shinseki resigned Friday as secretary of veterans affairs, taking responsibility for a scandal in the VA health-care system over excessive waiting times and coverups of what he called "systemic" problems.
President Obama announced that he accepted Shinseki's resignation after agreeing with his embattled VA secretary that he had become a "distraction" as the department struggles to deal with a huge increase of veterans in need of care after more than a decade of war overseas.
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