Posted on 11/15/2009 11:25:06 AM PST by jazusamo
The case of Gerald Walpin, the controversially fired inspector general for the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), continues to raise questions about what the Obama administration is hiding.
Two new items and one previously overlooked item are of interest in the case. First, Mr. Walpin filed a legal brief on Nov. 6 that convincingly refutes the arguments in a White House motion to dismiss the lawsuit he had filed demanding that he be reinstated to his job. Second, White House officials met on Tuesday with staff of Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican, and narrowed but did not solve their differences over the Obama administration's withholding of documents related to the firing.
Though the White House has shared with the senator several hundred pages of relevant material, it continues to claim that several hundred more pages are protected by various legal "privileges." Until Mr. Grassley is satisfied with the level of White House cooperation, he probably will continue his "hold" on the nomination of CNCS Chairman Alan Solomont to be ambassador to Spain.
The previously overlooked item, meanwhile, plays a significant (but not determinative) role in Mr. Walpin's court filing against the White House's motion to dismiss. It involves one of the main arguments belatedly advanced by the White House to try to justify the firing - a firing that occurred shortly after Mr. Walpin filed two reports highly embarrassing to political allies of President Obama's. To explain Mr. Walpin's termination, the White House had tacitly endorsed a complaint filed by Acting U.S. Attorney Lawrence Brown of Sacramento concerning Mr. Walpin's behavior while compiling one of those two reports. But on Oct. 19, that complaint against Mr. Walpin had been summarily dismissed by the relevant investigator.
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most transparent administration ever......
The list, ping
Walpingate bump.
I can answer this one. Kevin Johnson ex Pac10 and Nba star’s
best friend is Craig Robinson (Pac-10 Head Coach Oregon
State).Who is Craig Robinson.............................
Michele Robinson Obama’s sister.
.........er Brother. Zero’s Brother In Law.
Thanks for that! That certainly explains it and I don’t doubt for a second that’s why Walpin was fired.
I wonder why they refuse to report on this case and apparently have no interest in pursuing it...
That’s an excellent question. The enemedia seems to ignore many things about Obama that would make them go ballistic with the Bush administration.
...continues to raise questions about what the Obama administration is hiding.
But, guess who introduced Mukasey Friday when he issued this indictment in a speech to The Federalist Society?
Yep, it was Walpin.
www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/1109/Mukasey_Obama_unlawfully_sacked_IG.html
In a somewhat jarring conflation of two disparate storylines, the legal group chose Walpin to introduce Mukasey. After taking the lectern, the former attorney general and federal judge lauded Walpin and declared that Obama violated the law when he removed Walpin from his post in June."Gerry served as an inspector general until he was not only unceremoniously, but in any reasonable view of the law, unlawfully removed from that position, something he has chosen not to suffer but to fight, as he usually does against injustice," Mukasey declared.
Mukasey praised Walpin for his lawsuit challenging his firing and noted that the former IG is pursuing the case "at considerable expense to himself but, I would add, with the support of his friends."
Interesting that many in the legal community outside Obama’s circle of thugs know Walpin was fired illegally. I’d think that Walpin will win his case easily.
Thanks for your post.
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