Obama to fire inspector general of AmeriCorps (m'Bonga's Brownshirts)

An inspector who is supposed to investigate scandals is being fired because he insists on investigating scandals!

The White House is going ahead with firing Walpin. The firing
apparently stems from Walpin's investigation of a non-profit group, St.
HOPE Academy, run by Kevin Johnson, the former NBA star who is now
mayor of Sacramento, California (and a big Obama supporter).

 "[Walpin] found that Johnson, a former all-star point guard for the Phoenix Suns,
had used AmeriCorps grants to pay volunteers to engage in school-board
political activities, run personal errands for Johnson and even wash
his car," the AP reports. In April, the U.S. attorney declined to file
any criminal charges in the matter and criticized Walpin's
investigation. But at the same time Johnson and St. HOPE agreed to
repay about half of the $850,000 it had received from AmeriCorps.

Bottom line: The AmeriCorps IG accuses prominent Obama supporter of
misusing AmeriCorps grant money. Prominent Obama supporter has to pay
back more than $400,000 of that grant money. Obama fires AmeriCorps IG.

And...

...Funding for the largest AmeriCorps program - the Teaching Fellows Program, run by the Research Foundation of the City University of New York - is in abeyance pending resolution of widespread problems identified in a recent audit. Although Walpin recommended that funding be curtailed and that previous funds (perhaps as much as $75 million) be repaid to the corporation, the corporation has said it will take no action on that matter.

Walpin concluded that nothing was being gained by the grants to CUNY and that the money was simply being used to subsidize an existing and funded program.

What we have here is a worthless fiasco of a pork-filled program that m'Bonga wants to expand.  He can't afford to have someone competent investigating it, can we.  Especially since ACORN is tied hand and glove with this thing.  Note that these IG positions are congressional...the pResident Kenyan is supposed to apply to Congress if he wants an IG removed for cause...not call him up and tell him to resign within 24 hours.

Update:  Two More Fired and one on the edge...

He was appointed with fanfare as the public watchdog over the government's multi-billion dollar bailout of the nation's financial system. But now Neil Barofsky is embroiled in a dispute with the Obama administration that delayed one recent inquiry and sparked questions about his ability to freely investigate.

The disagreement stems from a claim by the Treasury Department that Barofsky is not entirely independent of the agency he is assigned to examine - a claim that has prompted a stern letter from a Republican senator warning that agency officials are encroaching on the integrity of an office created to protect taxpayers.

The dispute comes as Grassley, ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, is looking into the abrupt firings within the last week of two other inspectors general - one of whom was fired by the White House and the other by the chair of the International Trade Commission.

Both inspectors general had investigated sensitive subjects at the time of their firings.

Grassley is now concerned about whether a pattern is emerging in which the independence of the government's top watchdogs - whose jobs were authorized by Congress to look out for waste, fraud and abuse - is being put at risk.