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Battle lines drawn in AmeriCorps IG scandal
By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
July 3, 2009
Key
Republicans in both the House and the Senate are accusing the White
House of giving “incomplete and misleading” information to
investigators probing the president’s abrupt firing of AmeriCorps
Inspector General Gerald Walpin. In return, the White House is hinting
that documents concerning its actions in the Walpin affair may be
protected by executive privilege.
Both developments are part of an escalating conflict between GOP
lawmakers and the Obama administration. Republicans are deeply
skeptical of the White House explanation for the June 10 firing of
Walpin, a tough investigator who had been probing misuse of AmeriCorps
money by Sacramento, Calif., mayor — and prominent Obama supporter —
Kevin Johnson. And the administration seems determined to conceal its
dealings with AmeriCorps and the organization that oversees it, the
Corporation for National and Community Service.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Battle-lines-drawn-in-AmeriCorps-IG-scandal--49767217.html