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Valerie Jarrett's Show

By The Prowler on 9.8.09 @ 6:09AM

Van Jones was not an isolated hire but a key cog in Obama's chief diversity operative's government-wide operation.

The White House shouldn't expect the furor over Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality Van Jones to go away just because he's resigned, says a former Obama Administration transition team member, because "the same problems that they created with Jones's hiring are there for others and they don't seem to care about the political damage these people may inflict."

According to several White House sources, Jones was hired for his "green jobs czar" positions over concerns raised by the White House Counsel's Office, after Jones's background materials came back with several of what were termed "inconsistencies" in the Standard Form 86 Questionnaire for National Security Positions.

When confronted with the 2004 9/11 truther petition by the White House communications staff, Jones, according to sources, initially blamed his staff at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. The petition was spun by the White House as Jones simply not having read the material closely. Within an hour of the White House statement with Jones's apology, another document came to light indicating that Jones had helped organize a 2002 truther protest march in San Francisco. Jones, according to White House sources, denied any involvement. "It's clear we [the White House] don't know enough about him," said a White House source in the Counsel's office, who spoke on Saturday morning before Jones resigned, and did so anonymously in the hopes that information about concerns raised by the counsel's office about Jones might push him out of the Administration.

The source inside the White House Counsel's office says that their office had recently begun to look into whether Jones had recently had contact with this friends and former co-workers at Color for Change, the leftist group Jones helped to found, and which launched the advertiser boycott against Fox News host Glenn Beck. Color for Change ramped up its protest of Beck after he began attacking the Obama Administration's "Czar" programs, including Jones. The White House legal office was also looking into the timing of a website that was launched late Friday, VanJones.net; earlier in the week the site had been "Under Construction."

The counsel's office places part of the blame on the Office for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement, which is overseen by Obama Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President Valerie Jarrett. Jones's "czar" job was created by the OIAPE, and Jarrett interviewed Jones for the position. In speeches before far-left groups over the past five months, Jarrett touted Jones's hiring, in part, because the groups, many of which count 9/11 truthers and radical environmentalists and anti-capitalists as members, were familiar with Jones's brand of anti-Americanism and economic radicalism.

"This wasn't simply Valerie Jarrett rubberstamping her guy," says a White House source. "You don't fill a position like this without his hire being approved at a couple of different levels at least."

But Jarrett did view Jones as a critical member of the administration for her outreach efforts, in part, because he was so well known and respected in the radical-left world the administration is counting on to help with issues like health care and cap and tax, and, more importantly, campaign efforts in 2010.

Playing to those types is another reason Jarrett's office approved the invitation of Jameel Jaffer, who runs the ACLU's "national security project," to the White House Ramadan dinner last week. Jaffer, a Canadian citizen, attended the dinner, which President Obama said was being held for American Muslims.

Jaffer is a cause célèbre to the far left for his career of litigating against the United States in support of terrorists and radical Islamists, and has proudly touted his awards from groups like CAIR.

"We had other names on the list for invitations, but Jarrett's office wanted Jaffer in the room. We were told it was important," says a White House source. "It was made clear that his presence was something senior folks here wanted to happen."

Jaffer has filed lawsuits challenging the FBI's "national security letter" authority, the constitutionality of warrantless wiretaps, and has been a leader in pushing for the shut down of Guantánamo Bay, and providing legal rights to terrorists held by the United States overseas in such countries as Iraq and Afghanistan. His efforts enabled the leaking of "torture photos" out of Iraq and Afghanistan, and some sources inside the Central Intelligence Agency believe he was one of the lawyers who provided legal advice to the Department of Justice to pursue an investigation into enhanced interrogation techniques used by the CIA.

"Given the groups Jarrett cultivates and keeps engaged, she needs to be able to point to people like Jones and Jaffer to keep our base happy. You saw the response we got from Jones resignation, [MSNBC host Keith] Olbermann went nuts online and will probably cover this smear campaign for a week. That's probably one of the best outcomes we could hope for," explains the former transition aide. "What Valerie is doing is no different than what Rove used to do with conservatives. She'd dealing with our Norquists and Limbaughs."

Jarrett's office isn't just about hiring anti-American presidential senior staff or inviting them to posh official dinners at the White House, though. Jarrett's office, according to White House sources, was influential in advocating for the creation of a "chief diversity officer" (CDO) at the Federal Communications Commission, as well as numerous other senior positions on regulatory and advisory commissions within the federal government bureaucracy.

"One of the reasons they held off on nominating confirmable positions at agencies like the FCC was so the White House could look at the structure of those agencies and where they could create jobs more in line with the President's thinking, so they create a post like diversity chief, and then we have a blueprint for the nominated chairs or staff directors to follow. That's how we got [FCC CDO] Mark Lloyd," explains a former Obama transition staffer.

Lloyd's job is, in part, to look for ways to create more "diversity" in media ownership, a policy approach that is viewed as a backdoor way to put in place a kind of "Fairness Doctrine."

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Valerie Jarrett, Cass Sunstein, Van Jones, Jameel Jaffer

Letter to the Editor View all comments (58) | Leave a comment

Robert Rosencrans| 9.8.09 @ 7:42AM

This is a clever group. Was VanJones simply hired as the sacrificial lamb so the rest of the loony Czars could survive and thrive? Or perhaps Obama is as stupid as many claim and the next 3 years and 9 months will be filled with consternation, turmoil and circular troop movements.

drudge ette obama| 9.8.09 @ 7:46AM

Read more about Valerie Jarrett. This is why she couldn't take the Senate seat. Just follow the money, people. All roads lead to Rome.

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martin j smith| 9.8.09 @ 7:57AM

those who were awake before the election knew that Obama was a radical--the information was there in broad daylight including his own statements during the campaign as well as well known past associations. All of the czars are problematical for me because there is no accountability except to one man. Obama yearns for total power --this is who he is and this is the Democratic.

Richard Baker| 9.8.09 @ 7:57AM

The Kenyan wants a Politburo or Presidium with himself as Leonid Brezhnev. The problem is that the Kenyan doesn't have the proper eyebrows for the job.

Nick in Virginia| 9.8.09 @ 9:06AM

Martin J Smith is right-on in his comment above. 0bama is going to find ways around the Congress (even though it is controlled by the Democrats, not all of them agree with 0bama's policies, and Reid and Pelosi have both already said they don't work for him, so cooperation is obviously at a minimum).

But now that the MSM has had to follow Fox's lead on this one corrupt appointee (Jones), they can not ignore subsequent similar information about others when they get uncovered. So the Jones resignation is beginning to shed light on Jarrett, and all that she is doing. This can only hurt 0bama's "master plan".

Marc Jeric| 9.8.09 @ 9:36AM

For better understanding of what is happening to us let me translate:
1) community organizations were known in the USSR as local soviets and in the satelites as block committees;
2) What we call the White House czars were known in communist dictatorships as komissars.
Are the things getting clearer?

Bobby beard| 9.8.09 @ 9:55AM

I submit to all, that any advertising pulled from Glenn Beck's program must be reinstated with a public apology. Apparently Glenn beck was correct in all his assertions about Van Jones...why the boycott???

Deborah D| 9.8.09 @ 10:01AM

And the media wonder why parents don't want their children to listen to an Obama speech. Guess what Obama and company -- we don't trust you.

JP| 9.8.09 @ 10:04AM

Bobby,
Advertisers have the right to pull thier ads. However, one wonders how many will regret it from a financial point of view. His show still is very popular, and ratings are some of the highest for his time segment. The advertisers are obviously missing out. Thier loss, but thier competitor's gain.

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bullwhacker| 9.8.09 @ 11:00AM

Corroborate last paragraph and its taps for Obama. Clear circumvention of the confirmation process, advice/consent, Constitution, etc. More grist for Beck!

bullwhacker| 9.8.09 @ 11:06AM

To be clear, read next to last paragraph, ". . . policies that do not survive the legislative process." This would be the circumvention.

LogicalSC| 9.8.09 @ 11:10AM

Well, of course, he was hired by Obama anyway.

Anybody with a brain knows that Barack Obama is a racist nutjob just like Jeremiah Wright and this Van Jones loon.

Great job, Leftists. Electing a miserable racist in the 21st century to the Presidency.

Michael L. Hauschild| 9.8.09 @ 11:12AM

How Condonesque, the liberal left was seeking a Black Ronald Reagan and all everyone got was “The Reparations Candidate.”

myna| 9.8.09 @ 11:12AM

I think Valerie Jarrette are in the wrong set of ideology. This would result in malcontent. Does she think that others can be mold to a mindless followers like they have?

Jitter| 9.8.09 @ 11:24AM

Thank you to Glenn Beck for the great job that you and fox news are providing to the American people who enjoy freedom!

Sue| 9.8.09 @ 11:57AM

It's more of that "hope" "change" and "fundamentally changing America." Some people just barely left of center and just barely right of center will give up their freedoms to "circumvent" Congress to "get things done."

You know who you are, and we're not letting you do it to us either.

The government bureaucracy TODAY is killing prosperity and growth; what would 100,000 more pages of regulations do to us? Kill us off even quicker.

Anon| 9.8.09 @ 12:07PM

The Democrats are just another group to Obama. He wants to be free of their power, too. This is about his autonomy to do what he wants and to stay in power. Beholden to no one.

Al Adab| 9.8.09 @ 12:23PM

It amazes me that anyone is surprised by all this. Our state religion idolizes Diversity, Choice, Tolerance, Hope and Change. Implementing those beliefs is simply a function of Faith. Unfortunately for us all, that Faith is misplaced as it represents adherence to Central Planning and elitist (statist) power over free markets.

President Obi-One, aka Al Naqis, is simply following through with his pledges to "fundamentally remake America". We got what we asked for, eh?

Al Adab| 9.8.09 @ 12:38PM

Deborah D:

Great link above. I confirm that I am a troglodyte. Limited government and Constitutional law indeed. Why bother when we have Hope and after all, "it's the right thing to do" equals the ends justify the means. Sorry, must have gotten some cynicism with breakfast.

Willa| 9.8.09 @ 1:07PM

So, is Valerie Jarrett the actual president? I've been wondering who was actually running Obama, who seems an empty suit. Is our first black president also a female? She should come out, then!

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she is.... will be credited for the job.
Obama is a disposable quantity for Jarrett.

Deborah D| 9.8.09 @ 1:29PM

Al Adab -- Thanks so much. There are reasons for American parents to be leery of this guy. He and his administration have hidden (and now not so hidden) agendas, and the American people are catching on.

Concerned Citizen| 9.8.09 @ 1:35PM

Wondering when the ABC, CBS, and NBC's will catch up to the curve and start actually reporting truth about this corrupt administration. To let a guy in the White House who is an admitted communist is an atrocity, lagging closely behind this unprecedented BS is the MSM purposefully hiding information from the American people.

Gill O’Teen ✝✡| 9.8.09 @ 2:22PM

Van Jones is just the tip of the iceberg which is going to sink our ship of state.

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Don’t Tread on Me!!

Al Adab| 9.8.09 @ 2:40PM

Deborah, Gill:

Now that we are gaining a clearer view of this President's agenda, there is in fact cause for concern. His dictator of the day world tour, his incessant apologies for America, his increasing top heavy administration (vis so-called Czars) of the executive Dept. and now a plan to chair the U. N. Security Council meeting on Sept. 24th.

It is plain that to this President it is all about him. This is the second Democrat in a row with such a narcisstic world view. You are right Deborah, the hidden agenda is in view. Be leery.

the aura of truthiness| 9.8.09 @ 3:31PM

One commie flushed out, a couple hundred more to go. Keep up the good work, Beck.

Michael Tomlinson| 9.8.09 @ 5:25PM

Willa, Barack Obama the vaginal President is the first "female President." Bill Clinton was the first "black President."

An American| 9.8.09 @ 9:13PM

We can only hope that the Van Jones debacle taints Obama in American's eyes...as I believe it should. People look at who you are surrounding yourself with, who's politics and ideas you agree with...most presidents wouldn't pick someone that they didn't agree with politically, especially for a Czar job. Obama hired him, now he can live with that decision....and there are more commies and nuts on Obama's list of Czars...hopefully, we can expose them before they do anymore damage.

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Jarrett was born to American parents James E. Bowman and Barbara Taylor Bowman in Shiraz, Iran, where her father, a pathologist and geneticist, ran a hospital for children as part of a program where American doctors and agricultural experts sought to help jump-start developing countries' health and farming efforts. When she was five, the family moved to London for one year, returning to Chicago in 1963.

As a child she spoke Persian and French.[3]

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dion nash| 12.16.09 @ 12:10AM

All you have to do is check Van Jones background and see what his perspective are. I did check and indeed he is radical. I am disappointed that Obama made his administration into a laughing stock.
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