Describing the probe into the dismissal of the AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin, one Capitol Hill source on Thursday compared Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley’s demand for facts in the case to a row of dominoes ready to tip over.
Grassley is asking questions, a team of Senate investigators is poring over documents in the case, and where the investigation proceeds now “depends on what dominoes fall next,” explained the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Already, the FBI is looking into charges that Sacramento, Calif., Mayor Kevin Johnson deleted e-mails relevant to an investigation by Walpin, whose dismissal appears to have violated a law passed last year (and co-sponsored by then-Sen. Barack Obama) to protect inspectors general from political retribution. Meanwhile, Grassley has expanded his own probe to include questions of whether the administration is undermining the independence of other government watchdogs.
Read the whole thing. Things aren't so peachy in the land of Unicorns and Rainbows.
This isn't the only IG scandal going on right now... he fired another one and there's some kind of investigation going on with yet a third...
ReplyDeleteThis, to me, sounds way worse than Bush firing the AG's (who served at his pleasure, unlike IG's) and even more so than TravelGate... maybe the MSM will finally start reporting some of this crap.
Hahahahaha... if only.