Just a bit more unethical, and quite possibly criminal, activity from the Obama Regime. It isn't just Walpin -- it is also the IG of the International Trade Commission and the limits being placed on the IG at the Treasury Department, who has oversight authority over the spending of TARP funds.

Chuck Grassley is on the case.

The dispute comes as Grassley, ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, is looking into the abrupt firings within the last week of two other inspectors general one of whom was fired by the White House and the other by the chair of the International Trade Commission.

Both inspectors general had investigated sensitive subjects at the time of their firings.

Grassley is now concerned about whether a pattern is emerging in which the independence of the government's top watchdogs -- whose jobs were authorized by Congress to look out for waste, fraud and abuse -- is being put at risk.

In a matter of a couple weeks, the Obama Regime has resorted to meddling in the operations of three supposedly independent officials whose job is to look for corruption and mismanagement -- all as they are engaged in investigations of matters that had/have the potential to embarrass Obama and his allies. And yet somehow there appears to be little interest on the part of Democrats in looking into these unprecedented actions that seemingly violate federal law -- despite last year's circus over the firing of US Attorneys by George W. Bush, which were expressly permitted under federal law.

Seems to me that we have more of the Chicago Way at work now that the inexperienced hack and his Chicago crew have taken over the Executive Branch. And the Democrats don't seem to care about these seeming violations of laws designed to prevent, catch, and punish corruption free from political interference.

H/T Hot Air, Malkin, Sister Toldjah, Moe Lane, Riehl World