Inquiry continues into Walpin firing
Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 6/30/2009 5:00:00
Gerald Walpin (Inspector General)Senator Chuck Grassley says President Obama has yet to provide Congress with a satisfactory explanation for why he fired Gerald Walpin from his position as Inspector General at the Corporation for National and Community Service.
Some critics of the Walpin firing believe the inspector general was fired simply because he investigated Obama ally and Democratic Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson for using AmeriCorps grant money illegally. However, in a letter to the Senate committee that oversees AmeriCorps, the White House claims Walpin was fired because he was "confused and disoriented," engaged in "inappropriate conduct," and had become "unduly disruptive to agency operations."
Senator Grassley (R-Iowa) is skeptical of the explanation and has written a letter to the White House, seeking more information on the firing. Although he has yet to get a response, the senator notes congressional oversight demands the White House cooperate.
Senator Grassley"This administration, during the campaign and since, has been very adamant that they're going to promote more accountability and transparency in government," he notes. "And lack of this information is not transparency, and consequently I don't know whether government's accountable. And part of my job is to hold the executive branch accountable."
Grassley finds it especially disturbing that President Obama did not abide by a law he co-sponsored with Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) and Grassley in the Senate that requires a 30-day notice to Congress before an inspector general can be fired.
So exactly why doesn't Obummer have to Obey a Law that he helped Create???
Does nothing that Obummer says or does come under his "Declaration of Accountability & Transparency"???
How much Lying & Lawlessness can he get away with???
John
