Posted on 03/03/2010 4:37:12 AM PST by cycle of discernment
Lid blows off Obama's forgotten scandal Congressmen pry loose evidence of president's illegal cronyism
March 02, 2010
By Drew Zahn
Former Inspector General Gerald Walpin An updated investigation report on the scandal known as "Walpingate" adds fuel to the suspicion that President Obama may have fired Gerald Walpin, an independent inspector general, as an illegal act of political cronyism and revenge.
"Throughout our investigation of Mr. Walpin's removal, the White House has repeatedly communicated that the president was not motivated by inappropriate political reasons," said Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., one of the authors of the updated report. "The fact is Gerald Walpin led an aggressive investigation of a political ally of President Obama that successfully recovered taxpayer dollars. While firing an investigator who uncovered the abuse of funds by a political ally might be considered an act of 'political courage' in Chicago politics, for most Americans it raises troubling questions."
As WND reported, the White House fired Walpin shortly after the inspector general exposed sexual misconduct and gross misappropriation of federal funds by Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, a prominent Barack Obama supporter.
Independent federal inspectors general, however, are supposed to be granted special protection from political interference or retaliation – thanks in part to a law co-sponsored by then-Sen. Barack Obama – to ensure they are free to investigate waste and fraud uninfluenced by political cronyism.
The firing led to an investigation by inspectors general advocate Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Rep. Darrell Issa.
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“Issa’s a bulldog! “
That he is.
They all do it. After all, Richard Nixon fired Archibald Cox.
“not motivated by inappropriate political reasons”
Does this type of statement have a name?
It is common in political language where by adding one word, “innappropriate” it becomes meaningless. It now hangs on the definition of innappropriate.
Sort of like when Ted Kennedy was asked about the rape committed by his nephew on his estate, he said, “I did not hear anything unusual.” So that means what?
Am glad Issa is our Bulldog here in San Diego.
Issa has been taking on people and organizations
over the years others have put their head in the sand
and wish it away.
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