Fired Inspector General,Gerald Walpin, Wants a Congressional Hearing on His Firing

  Gerald Walpin, the inspector general that President Obama fired because of his discovery that an Obama friend was misappropriating funds that were sent to one of Obama’s favorite programs, AmeriCorps, is asking for a congressional hearing into his firing.

I certainly don’t know the facts about any of the other IGs. But I don’t think you can find in the history of IGs such an administration attack on and terminating IGs before the last few weeks.

My firing has a chilling effect on other IGs,” he said. “The best way to handle that–aside from President Obama admitting that he made a mistake–is to have a congressional hearing so that all facts can be put out for the public to see

  It has been fairly well established on this blog in previous posts that the president illegally fired Walpin without the 30 days notice that is required by law and it has also been established here that Obama also broke the law by not providing congress with the detailed reasons for the firing. Both of these violations were of a law that President Obama himself co-sponsored when he was a senator in Illinois. Evidently he thought that this law would only apply to President Bush and that he could just ignore the law.

  Once the president began to feel heat for the firing of  Walpin he proceeded to smear the man whose only crime was to find an abuse of funds that was being committed by an Obama friend. The president called Gerald Walpin old and senile. Not in those exact words, but the meaning was evident. That is not a reason for firing, that is an attack. So much for the “change” in Washington politics that Obama promised. This is just more of the same political games.

  Apparently Gerald Walpin has taken great exceptionto his characterization by the president and rightfully so. Having no good reason to fire Gerald Walpin the president decided to smear him. This was a vicious, despicable, and discriminatory attack in my opinion.

  The American people deserve a hearing into this matter, Gerald Walpin is right about that. We need to know if this president is willing to cover up abuses that are occurring with taxpayer money just because he approves of the program that is corrupt and doesn’t want any negative light shed on the accused agency. We also need to know that he isn’t willing to cover up abuses that his friends are engaged in. Both of those scenarios seem to be at work here.

  The Democrat controlled congress want no part of this, and the media wants to see this go away so the chances of anything happening here are remote. But Gerald Walpin is refusing to go away quietly and if he keeps pushing the issue perhaps we will see some results. We deserve to know why the president fired a man who discovered fraud. If the firing wasn’t because of political reasons than the president has nothing to fear. If it was, we need to know the truth.