Sen.Grassley wants more info on AmeriCorps IG firing---relating to the role of the First Lady's office

TPM:

Here's the back story, in a nutshell: Walpin, a Bush appointee, had been investigating Johnson's use of federal AmeriCorps funds, dating to when Johnson ran St. HOPE Academy, a Sacramento non-profit. After concluding that Johnson had misused over $800,000, Walpin took the rare step of recommending that Johnson be barred from receiving federal funds, pending a criminal investigation. That ended up jeopardizing the city's ability to get federal stimulus dollars, after Johnson was elected mayor. But the local US attorney, also a Bush appointee, found no criminal wrongdoing in the case, and his successor formally complained to an oversight body for inspectors general about Walpin's work on the St. HOPE probe, charging that Walpin had acted "as the investigator, advocate, judge, jury and town crier."

Grassley also specifically asks for information relating to the role of the First Lady's office. That seems to come out of a story by the youth service newsletter Youth Today, which reported that, according to people in the field, "some decisions about CNCS are being made by First Lady Michelle Obama." The story also noted that last week, it was announced that Michelle Obama's chief of staff, Jackie Norris, would join CNCS as a senior adviser.

Grassley has appeared to side with Walpin for a while. In an earlier letter to Obama asking for more information on the firing, he wrote that "it appears [Walpin] has been doing a good job."

And I notice that Grassley is the only lone wolf lawmaker that is yelping over Walpin's firing and no one else. My question is why? Notice there wasn't an outcry from Grassley in the Scott Bloch scandal. Remember Scott Bloch, the head of the Office of Special Counsel, another independent office for investigations and the man who was supposed to investigate Karl Rove in the USA firings? Hopefully, Obama will make public to why he fired Walpin so this can be put to rest and appoint a new IG that will do the job that is acquire for the position. Just for a FYI: AmeriCorp and YouthBuild were alloted stimulus money according to the ARRA signed by Congress in February.