FBI e-mail investigation fingers White House?:
"Posted: June 17, 2009
10:08 pm Eastern
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has begun looking into a dispute that is linked to an AmeriCorps money scandal that has fingers pointing all the way up to the White House because of President Obama's dismissal of an inspector general who was on the case.
According to a report in the Sacramento Bee, acting U.S. Attorney Lawrence G. Brown has confirmed the agency is looking into the 'circumstances' regarding the alleged destruction of e-mails regarding a dispute over the handling of money at Mayor Kevin Johnson's 'brainchild' St. HOPE Academy, which had been investigated after allegations that public funds were misused.
As WND reported earlier, U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley is asking for an investigation into Obama's firing of the independent inspector general, Gerald Walpin, who had been charged with rooting out corruption in the AmeriCorps program – and had sought action against Obama's friend, Johnson.
Walpin told WND in an interview he didn't think the timing of his firing was a coincidence, and indeed, he said, 'I was fired for doing my job.'
Radio host Rush Limbaugh accused the administration of breaking the law by firing Walpin, attributing it to 'political cronyism' and declaring, 'Alberto Gonzales as attorney general fired a couple of U.S. attorneys. He took hell for it. This is bigger. Inspectors general are supposed to be completely above politics.'
One of the participants in the Bee forum page said, 'This story will be bigger than Watergate IF the facts are allowed the light of day.'"
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