A former Defense Department spokesman is calling out the Obama administration for giving terrorists better medical treatment than its giving the nation's veterans. In an opinion piece on FoxNews.com today, Defense Department alumni J.D. Gordon claims, 'Al Qaeda terrorists at Guantanamo treated better than our vets.' 'Yes, it’s true. I know because I served as a Pentagon spokesman from . 2005-2009 and visited Guantanamo Bay Naval Base over 30 times during . those years,' he writes. Former Pentagon Spokesman J.D. Gordon, left, says the suspected terrorists being held at U.S. military facilities in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are provided with better medical care than America's veterans. Gordon is pictured here at the U .S. Naval Base at Gitmo on July 15, 2009 . In this photo, then-Pentagon Spokesman J.D. Gordon, right, walks with courtroom sketch artist Janet Hamlin, left, CNN's Carol Cratty, center, and U.S. military personnel on the way to the courthouse for a U.S. Military Commissions hearing at Camp Justice, the site of the U.S. war crimes tribunal compound, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba on July 15, 2009 . Gordon is a retired Navy commander who served as a  Defense Department spokesman under both presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. After departing the Pentagon, he entered the realm of politics. In 2012 he served as an adviser to pizza magnate Herman Cain's bid for the Republican presidential nomination. He is now a national security and foreign policy commentator and a Senior Fellow and Communications Adviser to several right-leaning organizations in Washington, D.C. He is also the Executive Director of a national security-based conservative political action committee called Protect America Today that he helped found in 2012. In his op-ed on Fox's website, Gordon calls on the nation's Commander-in-Chief to 'refocus his priorities' on America's veterans and spend 'less time, effort and energy caring for Al Qaeda and Taliban detainees . at Gitmo and much more attention put on caring for America's veterans.' His op-ed points to a Joint Task Force Guantanamo fact sheet on Detainee Medical Care as evidence that the approximately 150 terrorists at Gitmo are taken care of by 100 health care providers. 'Doctors and medical personnel are at their beck and call,' Gordon writes. 'Got a . cold, a fever, a toothache, a tumor, chest or back pain, mental health . issues, PTSD? No problem, come right in. Military doctors are waiting to see you.' The Joint Task Force Guantanamo fact sheet claims the 'medical care provided to detainees at Guantanamo is consistent with what U.S. service members receive.' 'JMG providers administer care to all detainees regardless of disciplinary status, level of cooperation or legal status,' it says. 'Detainees are treated at dedicated medical facilities with state-of-the-art equipment and an expert medical staff.' The one-pager also notes that health services are available to suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay 'around the clock, seven days a week. Meanwhile, only one doctor is provided for every 35 veterans enrolled in the Veterans Affairs health care program and the VA's 267,930 employees, Gordon writes. 'If any government entity ever needed a complete overhaul, it’s the . VA,' he says. 'If it were in the private sector, it would have been shuttered long . ago.' Gordon argues that both presidents Bush and Obama allowed the VA to spiral out of control, citing VA officials' big salaries, big bonuses and big budgets for decorating, but zeros in on the current office holder for sitting on his hands for the last five and half years. 'Instead of fixing the problem' with veterans' care, the Obama's administration's ' focus was closing Guantanamo . and improving the comfort of detainees. Even though they already lived . under some of the best prison conditions ever seen.' Gordon, who is a veteran himself, says the government ought to be giving its countrymen and women who fought in uniform the same level of medical care than its giving to assumed terrorists. 'Our veterans have served the nation proudly. In many cases they were . gravely wounded during their service and now will require a lifetime of . medical support. Every one of them deserves better.'
J.D. Gordon is a former Pentagon spokesman who served under presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama .
Gordon says he visited the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay more than 30 times when he worked for the Defense Department .
Assumed Al Qaeda and Taliban terrorists being held at Gitmo get better medical care than America's vets, he says .
'Our veterans have served the nation proudly. In many cases they were .
gravely wounded during their service and now will require a lifetime of .
medical support. Every one of them deserves better.'
A former Defense Department spokesman is calling out the Obama administration for giving terrorists better medical treatment than its giving the nation's veterans. In an opinion piece on FoxNews.com today, Defense Department alumni J.D. Gordon claims, 'Al Qaeda terrorists at Guantanamo treated better than our vets.' 'Yes, it’s true. I know because I served as a Pentagon spokesman from . 2005-2009 and visited Guantanamo Bay Naval Base over 30 times during . those years,' he writes. Former Pentagon Spokesman J.D. Gordon, left, says the suspected terrorists being held at U.S. military facilities in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are provided with better medical care than America's veterans. Gordon is pictured here at the U .S. Naval Base at Gitmo on July 15, 2009 . In this photo, then-Pentagon Spokesman J.D. Gordon, right, walks with courtroom sketch artist Janet Hamlin, left, CNN's Carol Cratty, center, and U.S. military personnel on the way to the courthouse for a U.S. Military Commissions hearing at Camp Justice, the site of the U.S. war crimes tribunal compound, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba on July 15, 2009 . Gordon is a retired Navy commander who served as a  Defense Department spokesman under both presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. After departing the Pentagon, he entered the realm of politics. In 2012 he served as an adviser to pizza magnate Herman Cain's bid for the Republican presidential nomination. He is now a national security and foreign policy commentator and a Senior Fellow and Communications Adviser to several right-leaning organizations in Washington, D.C. He is also the Executive Director of a national security-based conservative political action committee called Protect America Today that he helped found in 2012. In his op-ed on Fox's website, Gordon calls on the nation's Commander-in-Chief to 'refocus his priorities' on America's veterans and spend 'less time, effort and energy caring for Al Qaeda and Taliban detainees . at Gitmo and much more attention put on caring for America's veterans.' His op-ed points to a Joint Task Force Guantanamo fact sheet on Detainee Medical Care as evidence that the approximately 150 terrorists at Gitmo are taken care of by 100 health care providers. 'Doctors and medical personnel are at their beck and call,' Gordon writes. 'Got a . cold, a fever, a toothache, a tumor, chest or back pain, mental health . issues, PTSD? No problem, come right in. Military doctors are waiting to see you.' The Joint Task Force Guantanamo fact sheet claims the 'medical care provided to detainees at Guantanamo is consistent with what U.S. service members receive.' 'JMG providers administer care to all detainees regardless of disciplinary status, level of cooperation or legal status,' it says. 'Detainees are treated at dedicated medical facilities with state-of-the-art equipment and an expert medical staff.' The one-pager also notes that health services are available to suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay 'around the clock, seven days a week. Meanwhile, only one doctor is provided for every 35 veterans enrolled in the Veterans Affairs health care program and the VA's 267,930 employees, Gordon writes. 'If any government entity ever needed a complete overhaul, it’s the . VA,' he says. 'If it were in the private sector, it would have been shuttered long . ago.' Gordon argues that both presidents Bush and Obama allowed the VA to spiral out of control, citing VA officials' big salaries, big bonuses and big budgets for decorating, but zeros in on the current office holder for sitting on his hands for the last five and half years. 'Instead of fixing the problem' with veterans' care, the Obama's administration's ' focus was closing Guantanamo . and improving the comfort of detainees. Even though they already lived . under some of the best prison conditions ever seen.' Gordon, who is a veteran himself, says the government ought to be giving its countrymen and women who fought in uniform the same level of medical care than its giving to assumed terrorists. 'Our veterans have served the nation proudly. In many cases they were . gravely wounded during their service and now will require a lifetime of . medical support. Every one of them deserves better.'
A former Defense Department spokesman is calling Bay Naval Base over 30 times during . those than America's veterans. Gordon is pictured here crimes tribunal compound, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Department spokesman under both presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. After departing the and energy caring for Al Qaeda and Taliban terrorists. 'Our veterans have served the nation proudly. In many cases they were . gravely wounded during their service and now will require a lifetime of . medical support. Every one of them deserves better.'