Inspector General Fired by President Obama Files Lawsuit to Be Reinstated*

real reputational, vocation and economic injuries…
Probably so. His inappropriate behavior is now widely available public knowledge.
Not exactly career enhancing…..

I was wondering when the MSM would pick up on this story. If this was Bush, there would have been impeachment hearings already underway.
Is anyone surprised that Obama and his band of Bolsheviks are usurping the law for political expediency? I mean this is the same man who decided he knew better than the Board of Directors of a major corporation and fired Rick Waggoner.
Ironically, the same law broken is a law that the Chosen One helped create.
You’d be wise to check the name Norman Eisen and also check Michelle Obama’s ties to this scandal as well.

Good for Mr.Walpin for having the courage to stand up to Obama.
Obama being the bully that he is thought Walpin would back down and quietly go away.
So instead of attention being diverted from one of Obama’s crooked friends in CA now the story will get more attention. That is if the MSM has as much courage as Walpin.

Obama has some serious character issues.
He was willing to ruin this man’s reputation because Walpin was going to expose one of Obama’s friends and misuse of money.
Obama is a creep.
I hope America wakes up.
He is not the great guy he pretends to be.

What have we learned in the last month or so?
If you stand up to mean-spirited bullies, talk show hosts, politicians, even presidents, and shine the light on their horrendous behavior and tactics, with enough public pressure, they will back down.
Note to the Republicans: Start or keep standing up to the snubs, bullying, name-calling and smears. If you don’t, there will be more Al Frankens.

one Independent, one Republican and one Democrat Senator all said they found the President to be within his right to fire the man so whats the rest of your points????

jpt quotes the Acting US Attorney:
“Walpin viewed his role … as the investigator, advocate, judge, jury and town crier.”
Gosh: when everybody KNOWS that the divine right to play ALL the parts is settled on the adorable shoulders of Imperial Ingenue Obama . . .
It’s a telling fact that even Obama-groupie Claire McCaskill originally opposed Obama’s retaliation against Walpin.

It looks to me as though Walpin is a highly partisan individual who is completely unsuited to work in the normally politically neutral job of Inspector General. That is suggested by his clear effort to create public controversy as he fought the U.S. Attorney (whose job it is to prosecute and to publicize true cases of government wrong-doing) and used every opportunity to publicize what he was doing to attack a Democrat.
In addition, it appears that he was not satisfying the Board he worked for by investigating issues that needed to be investigated by his office. That is professional incompetence of the first order in that he was not allocating his resources as directed by those who provided him with those resources. Instead he was off on his own witch-hunts, and in appearance at least, that witch hunt is primarily intended to embarrass democrats and especially Barack Obama.
Walpin’s behavior is highly reminiscent of the political behavior of General Douglass MacArthur in Korea when MacArthur was trying to use the fight against the North Koreans to set himself up to run for President in 1952. The big difference is that MacArthur was generally militarily competent, and Walpin’s competence as an IG is very much in question – and increasingly so as the pushes this ridiculous lawsuit for its publicity value.
That all seems pretty obvious in the public record, though I am sure that he considers himself a whistle-blower who is being repressed for his actions. His problem is that he considers his attack on Democrats to be so inherently right that he can’t see that he was not performing his real job because he was misusing his office to feed his partisan ambitions. He’ll consider himself “right” as long has he feels he can somehow damage Barack Obama. He’s just too partisan to ever recognize that his job as an IG demanded a great deal more neutrality than he has demonstrated.

Everybody who has spoken out against Walpin’s “inappropriate behavior” has had an interest in getting rid of him. He was challenging the way they were running their agency.
Now, it just so happens that he did uncover waste/fraud in the way *taxpayer money* was being spent. This rarely, if ever, gets mentioned by his critics even though it is highly praiseworthy.
I recall Sec Vilsack headlining a press briefing to announce he had saved the taxpayers $400,000 by eliminating the agriculture contract of one Stanley Johnson. Now, no wrongdoing was alleged there, it’s just that it was a contract considered wasteful. It was worthy of a spotlight by this administration.
But Walpin finds misrepresentations leading to about the same $ amount being returned to the taxpayers and…crickets.
That Walpin’s critics can’t even be bothered to praise the results he got on behalf of the people tells me they don’t CARE about the results he got. Which is not a good way for the government to be.

The comments are interesting. Anything to blame and then impune our President! The BOARD questioned Mr. Walpin’s actions. The Vice chair being a REPUBLICAN. Maybe you can understand it this way. Any company you work for, unless you own it, your superiors report to the head of the company. The board reported and made recommendations to Pres. Obama, he chose to take the actions the BI PARTISAN board recommended! So Mr. Walpin was terminated. But, I guess some of you who will find fault where non exists will continue on your hunt for “he did this wrong!” Sad for you!

Typical Obama administration…anything that goes against their liberal agenda must be smeared, spun and distorted in order to fool the idiots who voted for this fraud. Funny how the press and the liberals think he is so great!!!
PS We are not a nation of cowards!!!

“Any company you work for, unless you own it, your superiors report to the head of the company. The board reported and made recommendations to Pres. Obama, he chose to take the actions the BI PARTISAN board recommended!”
Ah, but who directed “the board” to do as it did?
The US isn’t (quite. yet.) a Family corporation run like a paranoid non-profit that doesn’t actually DO anything — like Bill Ayers’ “education” non-profit that was so profitable for Obama — but redistribute public money into private, very private, pockets.

The Acting U.S. District Attorney, a Bush appointee, found that Walpin violated the rules of office because the postition is non-partisan, and Walpin launched a partisan attack against now Mayor Johnson right before the election in November in order to influence the way people would vote. After an interview the CNCS board declared Walpin unsuitable for continuing on in his position. The CNCS then notified the WH, and Obama offered him an opportunity to resign. He refused and took it to his friends in Congress and at Fuchs Noose. His congressional friends attacked Obama and said they would investigate. They did and found no law(s) had been broken. I get the sense that many posting here have not been following this situation as closely as others, and just latched onto the lawsuit filed against the WH, in which Obama resides, part in order to pin something onto him. Good luck with that. This issue is not about an unfair firing, but about whether Walpin is competent enough to do the job to which he was appointed.

Try the truth said:
“I don’t think his competence was in question at all, he obviously had done his job in exposing the fraud that the president’s friend Johnson committed with the Americorps funds that went to Johnson’s St. Hope program, which was around $800k.”
And that should have been where his job ended! If he found evidence of criminality, he’s required to pass that along to the US Attorney’s office. Walpin has no prosecutorial authority.
Instead, Walpin passed it to the US Attorney and went straight out into the street to tell the press Johnson was a crook (a violation of the IG’s regs); when the US Attorney settled things with St Hope Academy, Walpin took it upon himself to CONTINUE attacking Johnson (another IG reg violation); the US Attorney wrote a FORMAL complaint about Walpin to the IG Supervisory board, citing numerous instances of Walpin selectively withholding exculpatory evidence indicating Johnson did NOT commit any crime, which the USA was forced to uncover via his own investigation (not only an IG reg violation, it may also be criminal).
In short, Walpin was a GOP hack trying to use his position to go after Democratic politicians, and he didn’t hesitate to violate rules and possibly laws! This is why everyone who has looked at this, including Republicans, have concluded his firing was appropriate. Unless he gets a GOP hack for a judge, he’ll almost certainly be laughed out of court! Remember, the IG’s serve at the discretion of the President, and the President is only obligated to notify Congress of a firing. He does NOT need their approval or agreement.

I think there’s probably a lot more to this story than we know.

pluckypurcel: I guess with the housing market crash you solely blame Bush when it was Obama and Dodd who threatened Bush with a filibuster if he tried to pass oversight on Fannie/Freddie. Plucky you know who Fannie/Freddie are don’t you? they are the underwriting / funding companies that failed last year and had to be taken over by the government. So if you want to stop the lies and see things for the way they really are you would see that it was both the dem’s and repub’s that are to blame and that Obama has blood all over his hands. When blaming Bush for the wars why not mention that Hilary, Biden, Kennedy, Kerry and Reid all voted for invading Iraq?????? Or that all the terrorist were done taking flight classes in the USA before Bush even won the election?????

Removing Walpin was typical, odious politics. I have heard Walsin speak and am satisfied that he has all his wits. He did his job and was punished for it.

The way Obama describes Walpin reminds me of the same way he tried to portray McCain.
Does he have a problem with older people?
He threw his granny under the bus, dumped his old pastor, said Mac had lost his bearings, and said Walpin was confused.
Obama’s health care plan will probably deny treatment to old people too.
I think Obama has proved without a doubt that he is the incompetent one not Walpin.
I hope he gets impeached before America is destroyed.

Thinking (5:12 PM); The tort reform argument is usually associated with ‘product liability’. This is a different animal all together. Nice try though.

Another firing to concerned about: Maj Stefan Cook was recently let go. His employer said it was as a result of pressure from the Obama Pentagon. It seem Maj. Cook was embarrassing the President with his insistence on proper documentation.

Obama’s closet is becoming so full of Skeleton’s so quickly, the Skeleton’s are starting to fall out.

“Try the truth,” I too have followed this case from the outset and I am not sure why cheerleaders for the president are so concerned about the lawsuit, if as you say, Walpin’s claims are completely without merit.
I personally am pleased that Mr. Walpin worked so diligently to safeguard the taxpayers’ money. He has a long and distinguished career prior to his appointment as an IG, including a stint as a JAG and awards for lawyerly professionalism (no, that’s not an oxymoron *G*) and for mentoring young attorneys.
I completely understand Mr. Walpin’s desire to have the case aired in a court of law, because his reputation has been savaged. As Ray Donovan so famously asked, “where do I go to get my reputation back?” Where Mr. Walpin goes, it seems, is to the legal system.
If the firing is completely deserved, I trust that will come out in the process. And if the firing was not deserved, that will come out, too.

Walpin is on record as not denying he appeared dazed and confused, but rather making the excuse he was tired and ill that day. He does not have a chance in court when he has already substantiated their accusation personally, he’s just after a spite hit on the guy who fired him.

Remove obama from office before he completely destroys us

One of the reasons I left the Democratic Party and became an Independent is because too many Democrats attack those who disagree with them on a PERSONAL basis. I expect to see Mr. Walpin’s character trashed, just as Joe the Plumber’s was. Aren’t Democrats able to criticize a person’s politics without attacking the person’s character?

I applaud Gerald Walpin for standing up to the Obama administration instead of just slinking away in fear, as so many would have done. Mr. Walpin is one of those quiet heroes people tend to overlook because they are obsessed with celebrity. It will be people like Mr. Walprin who ultimately expose the corruption of the Obama administration.

Gee…thank you SO much Carrie. You voted for George W Bush, right? Probably did it twice, from the sound of your attempt at “witticism”. I’m SO honored that you cast your “pearls of wisdom” to lowly me, Carrie. I’m deeply humbled, and awed, by your brilliance.

Jack, I’m hardly brilliant, but I’m smart enough to realize that Barack Obama’s “hope and change” rhetoric was designed to appeal to the naieve and uninformed, and to those so brainwashed by the liberal agenda that they’ve lost the capacity to think for themselves, if they ever had it to begin with.
But please do continue with your brilliant pro-Obama arguments. They’re such a good reflection on your Messiah and the liberal wing of the Democratic Socialist Party.

No, Grandma is not getting her hip replacement.
But 12 Million illegal aliens will get all the free healthcare they want, and you and I will pay for it.
(I’m sure this is just fine with Jack and the other followers of the Messiah.)

“Barack Obama: “end of life” issues swallow up our health care dollars.”
Obama didn’t take such great care with HIS mother’s ‘end of life issues’. Maybe he wants to be sure nobody ELSE will be ABLE to.
If one of His immediate family — the wife and kiddies — comes down with leukemia or whatever, His survival-of-the-survivors attitude may undergo an adjustment.

How was this guy originally appointed?
Was his predecessor removed appropriately?

Aristotle . . .
Couldn’t care less what you think . . . about any of that.

The Obama administration is continually changing the rules to implement their agenda’s, without due diligence or respect for proper procedure. Seems awfully convenient at a time when homeland security has amassed a huge budget.
Regardless of Walprin’s alleged mental state, disclosure of current homeland security issues should be brought forth openly before changing administrators.

This sort of thing does not happen under a Socialist dictator state, perhaps Obama should wait a few months before he start firing folks. (You know, so he can get Socialist state first, then fire people without facing recourse or the court system.

Another NEO-CON gone. When will my blessings stop. The point of this lawsuit is just to take a parting shot;to denigrate the new administration! Another way to just say “NO”, as instructed, by the nightmare that was the Bush adminisration. An effort to bog the country down with more trvial stuff, a distraction,if you will. Where was Mr Walpin’s concern for the IG’s office and the U S Attorneys’ office when Bush/Cheney was politicizing them? That Mr Walpin was allowd to stay in his position then, means that he was playimg their corrupt game- then. But now, he’s concerned about integrity? Go away Mr Walpin, and take all the Neo-cons with you! Haven’t you done enough damage to this country already?

Judy…Judy…Judy…
How difficult it must be to actually follow the facts of the news day to day. Mr. Walpin was doing his job and Obama is protecting corruption. When did Bush/Cheney politicize IGs? You must be thinking of Attorney Generals. You remember when Bush was replacing some and it was a BIG scandel. Oh, by the way, Obama has already replaced all the AGs and not a whimper from the MSNM for politicizing that presidential option.

It is becoming obvious the current political process is soo self motivated none of the news releases can be taken as fact. No one can be taken at face value. Where are the true statesmen?

You have a mistake in your story. Mr. Johnson payed the $73,000, but it was a LOAN because his corrupt St. HOPE doesn’t have any money. He paid with the stipulation that St. HOPE would repay him when they were able. St. HOPE owes $700,000 to SCUSD for services and rent, $93,000 to Ca Dept of Ed- a fine for uncredentialed teachers, and now $400,000 to the feds. He got off easy. Most people don’t realize the corruption that happened there. Mr. Walpin knows and is furious Mr. Johnson got away with stealing taxpayer dollars for his own benefit. He knows the govt wanted to settle to get Johnson (Sac’s Mayor) off the debarment list so Sac could get its stimulus funds. I’m sure that’s why Johnson got himself a sweet deal. Use the city’s need for stimulus $ as his bargaining chip and a desperate govt will give anything to get the money flowing- US atty Brown stated that the govt “didn’t want to stand in the way of Sacramento getting its stimulus dollars.” Compare the punishment of others who had similar wrongdoing. Usually they pay back 2-3 x the amount misused plus a fine.Walpin knows the settlement is a “farce” as he put it before he was fired.

Best of luck in your efforts Mr.Walpin.
Hopefully, in 2012 We’ll be able to say bye-bye to “delai-bama” and his “alinskyite” agenda of lies and manipulation!