More controversy related to the White House’s firing of an inspector general. The Byron York article is here. A top White House lawyer called the firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin an act of “political courage,” according to House Republican aides who were in a meeting with the lawyer Wednesday.
Category: Executive Branch
DoJ Public Corruption: “Disarray”
The Post reports on the state of affairs at the Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section. Now, even as prosecutors from the unit are fighting an internal department ethics probe and a separate criminal inquiry launched by the trial judge in the Stevens case, some of their targets are enjoying their freedom. Stevens, who lost […]
Update on Firing of Gerald Walpin
The Times discusses President Obama’s firing of Inspector General of the Corporation for National and Community Service Gerald Walpin. “My firing came after we had issued these two very substantial reports,” Mr. Walpin said in an interview. He said the board of the service corporation, whose chairman is Alan Solomont, a major Democratic fund-raiser, was […]