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Via MAL Contends - Update VI: Walsh attacked the “lack of intent” by Roberts. Intent is needed to prove fraud.

Walsh also pointed out that Roberts was diagnosed by numerous medical professionals with PTSD.

Walsh attacked the prosecution’s relying on the statements of the veterans when VA procedure stresses documentation and not personal recollection as the dispositive factor in deciding cases.

The VA needs a medical diagnosis and verifiable stressor and not a recollection, and a recollection is virtually irrelevant in the VA's deciding PTSD cases.

Thus personal recollection, often imperfect, ought not cause a veteran to be accused of fraud, asserted Walsh.