Posted by
Tomás Aquinas on Thursday, July 02, 2009 5:28:55 PM
This time it's the Amtrak inspector general.
You know about Amtrak. The Federal government took over Amtrak some 40 years ago to 'save' it.
It has not turned a profit in those 40 years. It continues to be heavily subsidized.
Amtrak also has truckloads of stimulus money, some $1.3 billion and more of your tax bux and mine.
Malkin has the whole scoop here:
Who railroaded the Amtrak inspector general?
Excerpts:
Watchdogs
are an endangered species in the Age of Obama. The latest government
ombudsman to get the muzzle: Amtrak inspector general Fred Weiderhold.
The longtime veteran employee was abruptly “retired” last month –just
as the government-subsidized rail service faces mounting complaints
about its meddling in financial audits and probes.
and
So, who is behind the railroading of the Amtrak inspector general? As with the story of the AmeriCorps firing, which has First Lady Michelle Obama’s fingerprints on it, the Amtrak case smells like cronyism. Investigative journalist Robert Stacy McCain, who has watch-dogged the watchdog stories, noted last week that Amtrak’s vice president and general counsel is Eleanor Acheson.
Acheson, an old friend of Hillary Clinton, also has close ties to Vice President Joe “Mr. Amtrak” Biden.
She hired Biden’s nominations counsel Jonathan Meyer to serve as her
deputy general counsel. The two had also worked together in the Clinton
Justice Department. Meyer called his hiring at Amtrak by Acheson a “happy coincidence,” according to Legal Times. (In another “happy coincidence,” Biden’s lobbyist son, Hunter, sits on Amtrak’s board of directors.) Acheson oversees the very Law Department accused of interfering repeatedly with the taxpayer advocates in the inspector general’s office.
Boy howdy. You'd better keep your mouth shut in the Hope and Change club.