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BYRON YORK: Did AmeriCorps official lie about possible First Lady link to IG firing? ?Congressiona?

By Glenn Reynolds

BYRON YORK: Did AmeriCorps official lie about possible First Lady link to IG firing? “Congressional investigators looking into the abrupt firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin have discovered that the head of AmeriCorps met with a top aide to First Lady Michelle Obama the day before Walpin was removed. . . . Alan Solomont, then the chairman of the Corporation for National and Community Service, which oversees AmeriCorps, had denied meeting with Jackie Norris, at the time the First Lady’s chief of staff. But recently-released White House visitor logs show that Solomont met with Norris on June 9 of this year (as well as on two earlier occasions). President Obama fired Walpin on June 10 after an intense dispute over Walpin’s aggressive investigation of misuse of AmeriCorps money by Obama political ally Kevin Johnson, the mayor of Sacramento, California.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on December 14, 2009 (boomark / email).