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Obama Accuses Fired Inspector General of AmeriCorps of Being 'Confused, Disoriented' (WOW)
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| 6/16/09
| Majpor Garrett
Posted on 06/16/2009 9:25:45 PM PDT by pissant
WASHINGTON -- Responding to criticism from a Senate Democratic ally, President Obama explained why he fired the Inspector General of the AmeriCorps without the 30-day notification required by law, calling Gerald Walpin so "confused" and "disoriented" that there was reason to question "his capacity to serve."
In a letter to the bipartisan leaders of the Senate Committee that oversees AmeriCorps, Obama listed these alleged defects in Walpin's leadership as an Inspector General.
* Removed after unanimous request from the AmeriCorps board of directors
* At May, 20, 2009, board meeting Walpin "was confused, disoriented and unable to answer questions and exhibited behavior that led the board to question his capacity to serve."
* The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California complained about Walpin's conduct to the IG oversight board and alleged he withheld exculpatory evidence.
* Walpin had "been absent from the Corporation's headquarters, insisting upon working from his home in New York over the objection" of the board.
* He "exhibited a lack of candor in providing material information to decision makers."
* He "engaged in other troubling and inappropriate conduct."
* He "had become unduly disruptive to agency operations, impairing his effectiveness."
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To: TankerKC
Obama you will bow to in short order.
181
posted on
06/17/2009 5:28:32 AM PDT
by
JamesA
(He who hesitates is lost.)
To: pissant
Nuts and sluts strategy...
To: pissant
And he has been remanded to a life skills rehabilitation center (read: psycho hospital) for treatment (read: electro-shock therapy 24-7).
183
posted on
06/17/2009 5:28:48 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(Impeach President Soros!!!)
To: pissant
Pretty incredible the POTUS would choose to be THIS involved....
184
posted on
06/17/2009 5:29:21 AM PDT
by
mo
To: wildbill
He should get mental acuity tests done which will show him to be highly functional for his age...then he should release them into the congressional record as well as to the media in refutation of the Administration’s charges.
To: visualops
No it is retired General James Jones (Obama’s National Security Advisor) that is being rumored to suffer from Alzheimers (whether he is nor not, I’ll bet he differs from what Obama is doing on National Security and Defense Policy.) After all, Obama hired the man. Now all of a sudden he’s being trashed behind the scenes and up for being let go? Give me a break.
As for Walpin, they’ve described him in a bad way but not said
“Alzheimers” far as I know.
186
posted on
06/17/2009 5:31:48 AM PDT
by
txrangerette
(Just say "no" to the Obama Cult.)
To: BobMV
This one can be verified (or not). Someone should check this out first to see if it was a unanimous request. If so, then the firing is correct. No, not if the board as a whole was corrupt and afraid of being exposed.
187
posted on
06/17/2009 5:33:21 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money -- Thatcher)
To: pissant
Does this thing have legs or are we all just pissing into the wind with the orgasmic comments?
To: tobyhill
...question Michelle Obama’s role after press reports indicated she was taking a strong interest in AmeriCorps activities...
Hmmm.
189
posted on
06/17/2009 5:36:25 AM PDT
by
EBH
(I am not your comrade, nor sheeple, nor serf or slave; but a Freeman.)
To: Puddleglum; pissant
I am thinking that Congress — if they do anything — may not be over the firing, but the ensuing, ongoing cover-up.
There's obviously more than meets the eye here concerning Walpin:
— Walpin was a Bush IG pick, confirmed by the US Senate, and sworn in January 8, 2007
— Walpin is a Yale alumni that supported Supreme Court Justice Alito, who Obama staunchly opposed in Senate Confirmation hearings
— Walpin is a Jewish Bush supporter
— Walpin was responsible for oversight of the Corporation for National and Community Service which includes AmeriCorps, Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) and Senior Corps. As these agencies are about to undergo MASSIVE expansion under Obama's "stimulus" package, Walpin would have stood squarely in the way of any (planned) fraud of these agencies.
190
posted on
06/17/2009 5:38:40 AM PDT
by
BP2
(I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
To: Malsua
Sorry, you did invent it.
Nobody even said he was even possibly a drunk until you said it.
You took the word of the people who fired him illegally as to his state of being and actions.
Then offered a possible explanation of drunkeness.
I don’t take their word and don’t assume anything negative about him at this point.
In addition, he’s appeared with Glenn Beck and Laura Ingraham and on Fox and Friends.
As many FReepers who saw and heard him have said - and I agree - there did not appear to be a thing wrong with him, to the contrary he appeared more than on the ball.
191
posted on
06/17/2009 5:39:06 AM PDT
by
txrangerette
(Just say "no" to the Obama Cult.)
To: pissant
As usual the ABC Blogs led by White House propagandist Jake Tapper wrote a completely biased piece against Walpin.
And in the entire “article” not once did he explain why poor little KJ and Sacremento were having to payback $400,000.00 even though they were innocent.
192
posted on
06/17/2009 5:41:11 AM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(Gitmo detainees to Alcatraz!)
To: pissant
At May, 20, 2009, board meeting Walpin "was confused, disoriented and unable to answer questions and exhibited behavior that led the board to question his capacity to serve."Are those meetings recorded some how?
193
posted on
06/17/2009 5:42:10 AM PDT
by
Thebaddog
(Obama really did believe that stuff he was saying during the campaign)
To: Libloather
He smelled corrupt RATS. ...... In that case, I think we should send him a case of Zicam gel swabs (/snic).
194
posted on
06/17/2009 5:43:59 AM PDT
by
Liz
(When people fear govt, we have tyranny; when govt fears the people, we have freedom.)
To: VeniVidiVici
We need to get hold of ABC advertisers...
195
posted on
06/17/2009 5:47:19 AM PDT
by
mo
To: Malsua
Is the guy a drunk? It would explain why he wanted to work at home and was dazed and confused.
Here's what Gerald Walpin had to say about O's charges. From the Washington Post,
White House Explains Firing of AmeriCorps IG
Responding to the disoriented and confused comment about the one meeting:
In response, Walpin said Tuesday night that This is nonsense to rely on a supposed single meeting which makes no sense whatsoever and is just grasping at straws.
In response to the working from home:
In an interview earlier this week, Walpin recounted that he informed the Bush administration in early January of his intent to resign on Inauguration Day as a courtesy to President Obama. After less than two years on the job and 52 years of marriage, Walpin had tired of the commute from his home in New York. After informing his staff about his impending departure, some staffers convinced him to stay with the Corporation and telework a few days each week from New York.
Responding to being engaged in other troubling and inappropriate conduct and becoming unduly disruptive to agency operations:
All I can say is yes, there was a meeting where we had great disputes and the chairman of the board kept cutting me off on my presentation, Walpin said of Alan Solomont, the Corporations board chairman, who was recently appointed U.S. ambassador to Spain.
There was no confusion whatsoever about the meaning of my reports, Walpin said last night. Indeed right now, I would think that the only one confused is the White House, which really doesnt seem to understand the meaning and the need to protect the independence of IGs.
Walpin finally throws it back to Obama and Biden regarding their own competence:
If any mistakes or confusion in statements means that someone is unable to act in the position, well then President Obama once said there were 57 states. Does that mean hes incompetent? No. Or when Vice President Biden has made his various misstatements does that mean hes incompetent? Of course not.
LOLOLOL. Sounds like a sharp cookie to me.
196
posted on
06/17/2009 5:49:53 AM PDT
by
Girlene
To: Thebaddog
Are those meetings recorded some how? You'd THINK that Obama's staff would NOT have let Obama make such charges unless those charges could be verified. However, the Obama gang is starting to think they are untouchable.
Let's hope they do the usual thing that people like that do -- get sloppy...
197
posted on
06/17/2009 5:50:04 AM PDT
by
BP2
(I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
To: roses of sharon
I'd get a food taster and bring in my own drinking water..
Just saying..there's all sorts of meds that would produce that condition...
I hate to sound like a paranoid cynic, but thats what I am.
198
posted on
06/17/2009 5:52:18 AM PDT
by
concretebob
(Because someone has to say it!!!!!!!!!)
To: pgkdan
That should be the LAST reason you'd want to remove an Inspector General!Yea, Bernie Madoff and his family also unanimously requested that the prosecutors of his case be removed too.
To: April Lexington
200
posted on
06/17/2009 5:58:38 AM PDT
by
Miss Didi
( "After all...tomorrow is another day." Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind)
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