"Oops!"ACORN Shouldn't Have Gotten Half-Million-Dollar Grant

Chuck Neubauer,The Washington Times

ACORN,the community activist organization Congress currently barred from getting federal funds,should not have been given a $450,000 grant for an affiliate to establish a fire prevention and safety program,Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General said Tuesday.

The 2007 grant,awarded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency [...]

TARP watchdog blasts Obama housing program

By Silla Brush,the Hill

Obama comes under fire from another Inspector General

The Obama administration’s $75 billion program to help homeowners risks failure by,"merely spreading out the foreclosure crisis,"a top government watchdog said Tuesday.

Neil Barofsky,the special inspector general over the $700 billion financial rescue [...]

Walpin-gate opens wider:FBI investigates

Washington Times Editorial

Maybe the Inspector General was onto something

President Obama’s excuses for firing AmeriCorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin look weaker every day. The FBI has opened an investigation into a Sacramento program formerly run by a close ally of President Obama’s,giving credence to the IG’s work.

The [...]

Obama ousts inspector who was investigating fradulent crony

By ANN SANNER,Associated Press

Obama is slamming those who stand against him

President Barack Obama says he has lost confidence in the inspector general who investigates AmeriCorps and other national service programs and has told Congress he is removing him from the position.

Obama’s move follows an investigation by [...]