Posted by
Andy Zarowny on Thursday, June 18, 2009 10:13:45 PM
If you don't watch that 'evil'
Fox News Network, or read
"The Washington Examiner",
then you probably have not
heard this story yet. It seems
that the Obama Administration
is firing the very people who
are charged with watching
over all of those billions and
billions of stimulus money
being spread around. Three
Federal Inspector Generals
are being fired.
Neil Barofsky was fired after
embroiled in a dispute with
the Treasury Department over
being denied access to key
documents. Judith Gwynne,
who provides oversight to the
International Trade Commis-
sion, is being cached out as
the White House is not re-
newing her contract. No re-
placement is planned as of
yet.
But perhaps the most shock-
ing is the case of Gerald
Walpin. He was called last
week Wednesday evening
by the White House on his
cell phone and was given one
hour to choose between re-
signing or termination. Nice,
huh! The feisty 78 year old,
who as a lawyer took on Joe
McCarthy, Nixon's staff and
even defended Mia Farrow
in her divorce of Woody Allen,
declined to resign.
It seems that Mr. Walpin has
been putting pressure on the
'non-profit' St. Hope Academy.
Walpin discovered that some
$850,000 of Federal grants
were misused by the org,
which was run at the time by
Kevin Johnson. The former
NBA star and new mayor of
Sacramento, California is a
close friend of President
Obama. Due to Walpin's
findings, the group is being
denied further access to
Federal money.
Oddly enough, Obama, as a
senator, co-sponsored a bill
made into law last year that
requires the White House to
give Congress 30 days notice
with cause before firing any
Inspector Generals. The
cases for both Walpin and
Barofsky (who oversees TARP
funds) appear to be very sus-
picious and extremely political.
Yet, the Main Stream Media is
not covering the story! One
would think that after they at-
tacked Bush for firing five
Federal attorneys, which he
could do so without cause or
any notification, that the press
might see the possible violation
of Federal laws by the White
House as a worthy news story.
But, of course, the MSM have
no stomach to rain on their
hero's parade.
The White House first tried to
explain Walpin's dismissal as
due to a "lack of confidence".
When that didn't pass the scru-
tiny test, they release another
statement accusing Walpin,
essentially, of being senile and
too old to do the job. After see-
ing Mr. Walpin on "The Glenn
Beck Show" yesterday easily
pass a state mental compe-
tency test, that one doesn't
wash, either.
Over a year ago, way back
when Obama and Clinton were
neck-and-neck in the Democrat
primary, I warned that Obama's
true mission in running for the
presidency was to stop the
Federal investigation into the
Illinois 'Combine', called Opera-
tion Board Games. This is the
investigation that since 2003
has arrested and prosecuted
some 22 associates of former
governor, Rod Blagojevich.
The most recent case being
that of Antoin "Tony" Rezko,
who was also a close friend of
Barack Obama.
I believe that these new firings
are just the first of many more
to come.