Former AmeriCorps Official Says Obama Removed Him for 'Doing My Job'

[meesterperfect]

With his firing, Walpin said he's worried about the "chilling effect" it will have on his staff as well as other inspectors general who are supposed to be free to investigate independently concerns surrounding the agencies to which they're assigned.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/16/americorps-official-says-obama-removed-doing-job/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24617461@N02/3327145730/

Seems like the guy should have been given praisen for exposing robbery of tax money by a public official.
But instead he was given the boot.
Nice message to send other inspectors.

 

[Dean Wormer]

I think this has been discussed in this thread.

 

[Hot Mega]

With his firing, Walpin said he's worried about the "chilling effect" it will have on his staff as well as other inspectors general who are supposed to be free to investigate independently concerns surrounding the agencies to which they're assigned.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/16/americorps-official-says-obama-removed-doing-job/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24617461@N02/3327145730/

Seems like the guy should have been given praisen for exposing robbery of tax money by a public official.
But instead he was given the boot.
Nice message to send other inspectors.

Do you suppose it would be worth it to post from unbiased sources that would tell both sides of the story?

White House Plays Hardball; Says Fired IG Walpin Was "Confused, Disoriented" Engaged in "Inappropriate Conduct"
June 16, 2009 10:58 PM

In a letter to Sens. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, the Chairman and Ranking Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Norm Eisen, the Special Counsel to the President, outlined a number of reasons why President Obama fired Inspector General Gerald Walpin.

....Eisen writes that the President decided to take the step after learning that the Acting US Attorney for the Eastern District of California, Lawrence Brown, "a career prosecutor who was appointed to his post during the Bush Administrator, had filed a complaint about Mr. Walpin's conduct with the oversight body for Inspectors General, including for failing to disclose exculpatory evidence."

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/06/white-house-plays-hardball-says-fired-ig-walpin-was-confused-disoriented-engaged-in-inappropriate-co.html


More Details Emerge In President Obama's Firing of Inspector General
ABC News ^ | 13 June 2009 | Jake Tapper
Posted on Sat Jun 13 2009 16:37:20 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) by John Jorsett

It was Wednesday evening and Gerald Walpin was pleading for his job.

Just a few hours before, at around 5:20 pm, Walpin -- , Inspector General of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) -- was driving on a highway when he had received a phone call from Norm Eisen, special counsel to the president for ethics and government reform, informing him that President Obama no longer had confidence in him and wanted him to resign.

In that email, as well as other documents surrounding Walpin's termination obtained by ABC News, a picture emerges of an ambitious and aggressive inspector general whose actions repeatedly offended officials of the US Attorney's office, to the point that the Republican-appointee in the US Attorney's office filed an official complain against the Republican-appointed Inspector General.

...In a follow-up letter, White House counsel Greg Craig -- responding to a letter of concern about Walpin’s termination from Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa -- noted that Lawrence Brown, the “Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California, a career prosecutor who was appointed to his post during the Bush Administration, has referred Mr. Walpin’s conduct for review by the Integrity Committee of the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency.”

Craig said that the White House was “aware of the circumstances leading to that referral and of Mr. Walpin’s conduct throughout his tenure and can assure you that that the president’s decision was carefully considered.” He noted that Walpin’s termination “is fully supported by the Chair of the Corporation (a Democrat) and the Vice-Chair (a Republican).”

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