NATIONAL BRIEFING / WASHINGTON, D.C.
A Democratic senator joined Republicans in questioning President Obama’s firing of the internal watchdog for the AmeriCorps program.
Gerald Walpin, the service agency’s inspector general, was dismissed over his handling of an investigation of Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, an Obama supporter during the presidential campaign.
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) said the president failed to follow a law she sponsored, which requires that he give Congress 30 days’ notice of an inspector general’s dismissal, along with a cause for the firing.
Obama had said he had lost confidence in Walpin. Late Tuesday, Obama’s special counsel offered some details in a letter, saying Walpin engaged in “inappropriate conduct.”
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