Comments on: inspector general round-up

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:29:35 +0000

Lorraine A. Green was a Presidential appointee to the U.S. Census Monitoring Board in 2000. I assume she’s still a board member.

Her photo and “bio” is shown on that page
http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/cmb/cmbp/board.asp.htm

By: Confused? Disoriented? Senile? : NO QUARTER

Confused? Disoriented? Senile? : NO QUARTER — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:00:32 +0000

[...] allegations as well. Also don’t miss earlier posts on this topic from American Girl in Italy, here and [...]

By: American Girl in Italy

American Girl in Italy — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:49:58 +0000

that’s why i was confused. i was googling away, and couldn’t find ANYTHING current….

By: HC123

HC123 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:47:35 +0000

Thats very Orwellian.

By: Chad3337

Chad3337 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:49:48 +0000

It’s not strange, it’s just typical of this Administration. The firing only happened on Thursday (obviously orchestrated since they were ready to announce appointment of a new IG who hadn’t previously worked for AMTRAK and won’t be able to find her way around that byzantian organization), and obviously the Main Stream Media isn’t interested.

You know, it’s the old move along folks, there’s nothing to see here . . .

By: VinceP

VinceP — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:48:49 +0000

There seems like a total news black out on this. If you go to Google News and search for Amtrak Inspector General Fired, you get zero hits. If you put the fired guy's name , Wiederhold, in there, you get zero hits. If you view the current Amtrak IG's website, you see it names the new person,Lorraine A. Green. Google's cache has the name of the old person Very strange.

By: bob dobbs

bob dobbs — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:28:14 +0000

Can you link to this. There are no reports of the Amtrak IG being fired?

By: American Girl in Italy

American Girl in Italy — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:49:01 +0000

what are you talkin’ bout?

By: BREAKING NEWS!! AMTRAK IG FIRED TODAY

BREAKING NEWS!! AMTRAK IG FIRED TODAY — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:22:49 +0000

The hihgly respected and eithical AMTRAK IG, Mr. Fred Wiederhold was terminated today and swilftly replaced by the “Honorable Lorraine Green,” a longtime former Democratis Senate staffer.

Guess Mr. Wiedershold had been too objective. Actually, his sin was the he rooted out extensive amounts of contracting and other fraud, some of it connected with mob-infested companies. With AMTRAK having a TON of STIMULUS cash to burn through right now, (or should I say launder for the next election cycle), and it being Biden’s favorite porkulus, they had to fire an upright pulbic servant in favor of someone who honors Chicago’s “Pay to Play rules.”

The THUGOCRACY has landed

By: Babs

Babs — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:19:36 +0000

Let’s do an e-mail barrage to support Grassley with his very worthwhile efforts. How do I find an e-mail address for him? (Very computer illiterate old lady here.)Heck, I’d even like to contribute to his coffers if someone can tell me how.

By: Sonic Ninja Kitty

Sonic Ninja Kitty — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:34:13 +0000

And don’t forget, there are more than 2 choices! Check out, among others, the Libertarians. Fiscal conservatives, social liberals–what is not to love?

By: Ginger

Ginger — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:49:48 +0000

Did the IG eat or drink anything at that meeting, it wouldn’t surprise me one bit to find out he was slipped something in his coffee….it’s a bad thing when nothing bad the leaders of this nation do surprise me any more.
Beginning to wonder what country I live in.

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:32:15 +0000

We are being ruled by a Chicago thugocracy. When will the American people wake up? Under normal circumstances this would be a top story and would instantly have a “gate” name assigned to it. I’m convinced more than ever that most of our media are now “state run.”

By: cathnealon

cathnealon — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:43:25 +0000

30 year former Dem here who dumped the party on May 31st after they stole the delegates from HRC and gave them to BO. I’m not even Repub, Independent or anything at this point. I feel like a passenger on the Titanic and I’m going to support Grassley or whoever stands up to these Chicago crooks. Oh, and did the other IG’s also show signs of confusion and disorientation? Wow, I guess this will be their new Nazi type tactic-smear anyone who finds out they are stealing our money call them crazy and fire them. Could this site and others be next in line?

By: mel

mel — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:37:30 +0000

From RBO:

Separately this week, the International Trade Commission told its acting inspector general, who is not subject to White House authority, that her contract would not be renewed.

Grassley had become concerned about her independence because of a report earlier in the year that an agency employee forcibly took documents from the acting inspector general.

“It is difficult to understand why the ITC would not have taken action to ensure that the ITC inspector general had the information necessary to do the job,” Grassley wrote on Tuesday.

Less than three hours after the letter was e-mailed to the agency, the acting IG, Judith Gwynne, was told that her contract, which expires in early July, would not be renewed.

Obama not like what I’s are looking for or finding, like the fly he squashed on CNBC yesterday, the same goes for IG’s.

Transparency the Chicago way!