WH attributes Walpin’s firing to dementia

posted at 9:22 am on June 17, 2009 by Pundette
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Give me one reason why should we believe this: W.H.: Fired IG ‘confused, disoriented’

What could be easier for an administration without scruples than to brand Gerald Walpin with dementia and use that as an excuse for summarily (and illegally, btw) firing him. He has attested that he received a phone call telling him to resign or be fired, and that he had an hour to decide which. He got a follow-up call 45 minutes later and opted for being fired. Hear his interview with Laura Ingraham on June 15 here. He doesn’t sound vague or confused in the least.

There’s no way anyone can effectively defend himself against this kind of charge.

Ingraham queries: Is this how a person with dementia would be dealt with? Absolutely not.

What the firing is really about: Obama’s AmeriCrooks and cronies scandal. Michelle Malkin says it’s “much, much worse than Travelgate.” Ed Morrissey puts it this way:

They can’t provide the real reason, which is that Walpin went after a political ally of the President’s. That’s why they’re calling him senile instead. Let’s hope that a few more Democrats with principle stand up to the White House’s bullying and politicization of the Inspectors General.

More charges and smears from the White House, and Mr. Walpin’s response, from Politico:

“We further learned that Mr. Walpin had been absent from the Corporation’s headquarters, insisting upon working from his home in New York over the objections of the Corporation’s Board; that he had exhibited a lack of candor in providing material information to decision makers; and that he had engaged in other troubling and inappropriate conduct,” Eisen wrote.

Eisen’s letter also noted that a complaint was pending against Walpin, brought by the acting U.S. Attorney in Sacramento, who accused Walpin of failing to disclose evidence in an investigation.

“Mr. Walpin had become unduly disruptive to agency operations, impairing his effectiveness and, for the reasons stated above, losing the confidence of the Board and the agency. It was for these reasons that Mr. Walpin was removed,” Eisen wrote.

Reached at his home in New York Tuesday night, Walpin called the allegations in the Eisen letter “absolutely amazing.”

“Anybody who’s heard me speaking more than I’m used to speaking on radio and TV in recent days, obviously under great pressure from what happened would clearly know that I know what I’m saying and what I’m doing and I’m not incoherent,” Walpin told POLITICO. “There’s nothing confusing about malfeasance and there’s nothing confusing about what appears to be the fact that they terminated me because I was doing my job because the White House wanted to protect people who proclaim they are friends of the White House.”

Pretty convincing, I’d say. Are we supposed to believe our lying eyes or the Obama administration?

Cross-posted here.

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