TER!!!
Yes, put those three parts of the word together and it spells
"sinister." And that's what this Obama administration has become.
Apparently there is not one, but instead there are three, IGs being
hounded by this corrupt White House. (Hat tip to Dan Riehl and
Moe Lane.) This comes on top of a
witness who is
contradicting the White House claims about AmeriCorps IG
Gerald Walpin (both links from us at the Washington Times). Re
Walpin, it helps to read his two reports, which are both
very very well done indeed, both of which blow the whistle on
cronies of the president either for borderline fraud or for bad
mismanagement. Michelle Malkin, to her credit, has been
all over this. So has Byron York, who adds another big piece
to the story today, showing how
blatantly evasive the White House is being. I got some
pushback last night on deep background -- and, to be honest, it
does seem to me that on one level this anti-Walpin thing came
from the Corporation for National and Community Service's board,
based largely on a May 20 meeting where Walpin seemed confused.
But the White House knows the rules on IGs, and absolutely
nothing that my pushback source gave me came even close to adding
up to adequate grounds to summarily dismiss in IG. The White
House seems, to me, to have tried to take advantage of
uncomfortable relations between a part-time board and a fulltime
IG -- gee, as if THAT is an unexpected situation, an IG bothering
a board! That's what IG's DO, fergoshsakes. The fact remains that
this IG issued TWO very SOLID reports that embarrassed Whtie
House cronies, at an agency that already has some scary overtones
because of the president's expressed desire for a domestic corps
as big and
strong as the US military, an agency with
close ties to ACORN and of deep interest to the First Lady.
This is sinister. The Prowler, to his credit, has more
on this. John
Fund rightly tries to light a fire under Joe Lieberman to
exhibit his deservedly praised conscience and do a full
investigation.
This is important stuff. And while my deep background pushback
last night impressed me as sincere and well-motivated, it was
far, far, far less than impressive in terms of providing anywhere
near enough grounds to treat Mr. Walpin this way.
Everybody who cares about integrity in government should keep
pounding on this issue -- HARD.
