“Confused” Inspector General Takes Competency Test by Glenn Beck – Obama dishonors…

June 21, 2009

…an honorable man. Obama accuses Gerald Walpin of senility, and being disorientated and off his rocker at a recent meeting. Obama fired and is now trying to discredit and disgrace a man who wanted nothing more than to serve his country in the last years of his life, and now this is his thanks. Obama should feel ashamed of himself; he’s a disgrace to the office of the President.

I have not been this upset in a long time. It’s just like Glenn Beck says; just think if this was your Dad or Granddad. How would you feel if his name and honor was defiled for political reasons?

Obama and his corrupt Administration will fall of their own weight, just you wait and see. There is just no way that the news media will not eventually take notice of this kind of corruption. Or is there? I might be wrong.

What a pathetic man this Obama is turning out to be. How can he do something like this to a public servant who is only doing the job that he was hired to do. I have given Obama his chance, and he has failed. I feel like I’m in the old Soviet Union where anything goes to destroy the integrity and reputation of those who seek the truth. Is this the kind of country that we want to live in?
jbranstetter04

Major Garrett Contributing Editor
WASHINGTON – Responding to criticism from a Senate Democratic ally, President Obama for the first time 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 bi-partisan 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.”
The letter, authored by Norman Eisen, Special Counsel to the President for ethics, concluded: “It was for these reasons that Mr. Walpin was removed.”
Hours before, Sen. Claire McCaskill, Missouri Democrat, criticized Obama for failing to specify why he fired Walpin.
“The White House has failed to follow the proper procedure in notifying Congress as to the removal of the Inspector General for the Corporation for National and Community Service,” McCaskill said in a statement. “The legislation which was passed last year requires that the president give a reason for the removal. ‘Loss of confidence’ is not a sufficient reason. I’m hopeful the White House will provide a more substantive rationale, in writing, as quickly as possible.”
Walpin led a 2008 investigation into allegations of misused taxpayer funds distributed by AmeriCorps to the St. HOPE Academy of Sacramento, founded in 1989 by Obama supporter and former NBA player Kevin Johnson. Walpin said Johnson, now mayor of Sacramento, misused roughly $850,000 in AmeriCorps funds. His referral to the U.S. Attorney’s Office did not result in the filing of criminal charges. But St. HOPE officials agreed, via a settlement, to repay half of its AmeriCorps grants.
On Tuesday, Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican, sought all White House information Walpin’s firing. That followed a request from Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, that AmeriCorps provide “any and all records, e-mail, memoranda, documents, communications, or other information” related to Walpin’s firing. Issa and Grassley are minority members of congressional oversight panels….
http://whitehouse.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/06/16/obama-accuses-fired-inspector-general-of-americorps-of-being-confused-disoriented/

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