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New documents: White House scrambled to justify AmeriCorps firing after the fact
By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
November 23, 2009
Just hours after Sen. Charles Grassley and Rep. Darrell Issa released a
report
Friday on their investigation into the abrupt firing of AmeriCorps
inspector general Gerald Walpin, the Obama White House gave the
lawmakers a trove of new, previously-withheld documents on the affair.
It was a twist on the now-familiar White House late-Friday release of
bad news; this time, the new evidence was put out not only at the start
of a weekend but also hours too late for inclusion in the report.
The new documents support the Republican investigators' conclusion that
the White House's explanation for Walpin's dismissal -- that it came
after the board of the Corporation for National and Community Service,
which oversees AmeriCorps, unanimously decided that Walpin must go --
was in fact a public story cobbled together
after Walpin was fired, not before.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/New-documents-White-House-scrambled-to-justify-AmeriCorps-firing-after-the-fact-71483647.html