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AmeriCorps Feared Bad Press If IG Investigation Continued (Byron York)
Washington Examiner ^ | Wednesday, June 24, 2009 | Byron York

Posted on 06/24/2009 12:59:27 PM PDT by kristinn

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Freepers, we blew picking up on this story. It was posted to the Washington Examiner at 5:42 a.m. today.

Byron York has been doing some great reporting. We need to pay closer attention to his work.

1 posted on 06/24/2009 12:59:27 PM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn

from related article Here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278590/posts

“Meanwhile, a bipartisan group of officials — including four former U.S. attorneys, three former federal judges, one former attorney general and a former counsel to President Clinton — sent a letter to the Senate Wednesday defending the integrity and competence of Walpin.”

Contact your senators! Contact information on this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2180833/posts


2 posted on 06/24/2009 1:02:36 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Hey hey! Ho ho! Where's your Birth Certificate/ We've a right to know!)
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Freepers, we blew [it] picking up on this story. It was posted to the Washington Examiner at 5:42 a.m. today.

Not so. I saw it first thing when I logged in at work (0800 CDT)

3 posted on 06/24/2009 1:04:55 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (FreepMail me if you want on the Bourbon ping list!)
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To: kristinn

This story adds a critical new detail - the deleted e-mails and possible obstruction charges. Had not heard that before. That changes this from political payback to obstruction and evidence tampering.


4 posted on 06/24/2009 1:05:32 PM PDT by TexasNative2000 (Bush was the dumbest sounding smart President, and Obama is the smartest sounding dumb President.)
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“AmeriCorps Feared Bad Press If IG Investigation Continued”

And assumed the firing story would just get buried by the MSM-as it was.


5 posted on 06/24/2009 1:06:27 PM PDT by Spok (Proud father of a Marine in the 1/1.)
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To: napscoordinator

Here’s all you need to know to understand why the *confusion* excuse was a load.


6 posted on 06/24/2009 1:10:17 PM PDT by MozarkDawg
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To: kristinn

Great piece by Byron York, now if he’ll just stay with it!


7 posted on 06/24/2009 1:13:56 PM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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It’s pretty clear that this is one of the more heinous crimes committed by the 0. However, with the push for investigation much less prosecution being public and media driven, it will take enormous amounts of luck and activism for this to go anywhere besides being a blurb in the very back of a small town paper.


8 posted on 06/24/2009 1:15:16 PM PDT by kenth
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After checking the other links there’s no doubt he’ll stay with it. :)


9 posted on 06/24/2009 1:16:24 PM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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As always, it’s not the crime as much as the coverup that will get you in trouble.

Now, what we need to play up on this is - how much did this “0bama supporter” contribute to 0bama’s campaign?

This was simply money laundering. Taking taxpayer money and giving it to a democRat politician, it just happened to go through AmeriCorps, to Kevin Johnson, then to 0bama.


10 posted on 06/24/2009 1:19:27 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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We can help get this story out by emailing all of our friends and discussion groups and sending it out to our senators and congressmen and newspapers and radio hosts...it can be made big as it is if we persist.

On the evening of Wednesday, June 10, an official of the White House counsel's office called Walpin to tell him he had one hour to resign or be fired

I find this so offensive and dirty and mob like I just want to SCREAM.

Especially when you consider that Walpin is a GOOD GOOD man who had done NOTHING!

We cannot let this go. It is vile and ya know what, I WANT THE NAME of the WH COUNSEL who called WALPIN. Who was this creep who is so knee padded to uhbama that he would forego his bar oath and engage in this PATHETIC THUGGERY-now including trying to SMEAR the sanity of WALPIN since this attorney BROKE THE LAW, the 30 day law.

WHAT IS THE COUNSEL's NAME?

Is it by any chance gregg craig....the man who helped send Elian back to hell?

11 posted on 06/24/2009 1:20:38 PM PDT by Republic (Jedem das Seinesc)
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12 posted on 06/24/2009 1:20:46 PM PDT by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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Good idea, sending it to our reps and senators demanding action. Posting locally too. Fingers crossed the this injustice won’t be swept away.


13 posted on 06/24/2009 1:23:29 PM PDT by kenth
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To: kristinn

If Obama had been a Republican, the WussHouse press conferences would have seen 50 questions about this already.

American Journalism is a Fraud.


14 posted on 06/24/2009 1:25:29 PM PDT by cookcounty (He who controls the Language controls the Debate.)
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To: Kartographer

Does the White House have an email address? I would like to send this to Uhbama where he resides...smokey pig pen that it is now.


15 posted on 06/24/2009 1:27:15 PM PDT by Republic (Jedem das Seinesc)
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To: MrB

My question since this incident broke is: Does Kenvin Johnson have a friendship with Michelle Obama’s brother, Craig Robinson? How did he become friends with the Obamas? Is a pay for play involved? Craig has been involved in others.


16 posted on 06/24/2009 1:28:52 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Hey hey! Ho ho! Where's your Birth Certificate/ We've a right to know!)
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Title search for Americorps doesn't show this article being posted until this afternoon.
17 posted on 06/24/2009 1:30:30 PM PDT by kristinn (Latest FR Convention info: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277012/posts)
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And assumed the firing story would just get buried by the MSM-as it was.
Did you watch Obama's last news conference? Do you think there is any MSM reporter, correspondent or anchor who would want to be known as the man who brought down Obama? Think about it. He would be an outcast, a pariah among his MSM brethren. Not to mention there would be so many people mad at him, his career would be effectively ruined.
18 posted on 06/24/2009 1:31:00 PM PDT by Krankor ("Quit talking about the eight men, or there's gonna be nine.")
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"This story adds a critical new detail - the deleted e-mails and possible obstruction charges.

Highly Nixonian. But Woodward and Bernstein are dead (or may as well be), and there are no MSM jornalists who care about integrity.

19 posted on 06/24/2009 1:31:44 PM PDT by cookcounty (He who controls the Language controls the Debate.)
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We can’t let this die.

We must contact all news outlets and ask why they’re not covering this. We must SHAME them into it.

We must contact our Congressmen and ask why they aren’t raising a stink.


20 posted on 06/24/2009 1:34:14 PM PDT by fullchroma (I want my country back.)
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