Latest Pajamas Media Post (’Cracking ACORN Requires Comprehensive Electoral Reform’) Is Up (UPDATE: Only a Big 4 CPA Firm Can Do an ‘Independent Audit’)
It will go up at about noon on Saturday here at BizzyBlog (link won’t work until then) after the blackout expires.
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UPDATE: ACORN’s decision yesterday to “suspend advisory operations” was accompanied by an announcement that its “Independent Advisory Council” would conduct an “audit.”
The “Independent Advisory Council” is a collection of strident, partisan, leftist, beholden hacks (HT Hot Air):
The Council includes many prominent Democrats, including the man who helped President Obama Transition Team, John Podesta, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress; former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend; Andrew Stern, International President of the Service Employees International Union; and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros.
As summarized by a Hot Air Tweeter: “A Soros hack, an SEIU thug, someone who pleaded to lying to the FBI, and a Kennedy.” Hot Air’s Allah added: “All that’s missing are a few pimps and prostitutes for ‘technical expertise.’”
Uh, no. Heck no. H*ll no. This is outrageous, and totally unacceptable.
There are four private entities qualified to comprehensively audit ACORN’s operations and its hundreds of entities from top to bottom. They are, in alphabetical order:
The firm chosen must be assisted by FBI agents that for the duration of the assignment are independent of the influence of Attorney General Eric Holder. The auditors and the G-men must have unfettered access to all records at all offices of all ACORN and ACORN-related entities. The G-Men will have to take charge of anything the auditors find that appears to be criminal in nature.
Only these firms can bring sufficient resources to bear at the necessary speed. Bring in the GAO auditors as additional low-level staff if necessary.
While the anti-ACORN momentum is strongest, offended congresspersons of both parties must insist that a truly independent audit be undertaken, and they must fund it appropriately.
This is a proven criminal enterprise we’re talking about here. Nothing else will suffice. If the audit costs millions, so be it. Given what’s at stake, especially over the long-term, the auditors should metaphorically be given an unlimited budget, and be allowed to exceed it if necessary.
Anyone catch the weak defense by the WH about the Czars? Why does the POTUS need “point men?” Isn’t that what his cabinet is for?
Comment by zf — September 17, 2009 @ 4:21 pm