Was Van Jones Vetted?
The first segment of tonight’s Hannity show was about Van Jones, the admitted Communist who is now President Obama’s Green Jobs Czar. Hannity and guest Kimberly Guilfoyle kept tiptoeing around whether the FBI had properly vetted Jones. Fortunately, conservative columnist S.E. Cupp didn’t hesitate with her opinion.
Ms. Cupp said that there’s no doubt but that President Obama knew exactly who he was. Proof of that was provided by Valerie Jarrett:
JARRETT: Oooh. Van Jones, alright! So, Van Jones. We were so delighted to be able to recruit him into the White House. We were watching him, uh, really, he’s not that old, for as long as he’s been active out in Oakland. And all the creative ideas he has. And so now, we have captured that. And we have all that energy in the White House.
During his “time in Oakland”, he was an admitted Communist, an admitted revolutionary and a person who said that white people were committing chemical genocide against people of color. He spoke out that wealth should be given to native Americans and that we needed to change our entire economic system.
Simply put, the Obama administration knew exactly who Van Jones was.
If we want to put this into context, let’s remember the FBI files scandal during the Clinton years. Here’s what Wikipedia says about Filegate:
Craig Livingstone, director of the White House’s Office of Personnel Security, improperly requested, and received from the FBI, background reports without asking permission of the subject individuals. Estimates range from 400 to 700 to 900 unauthorized file disclosures.
The reason this caused such a stir is because these files include everything from allegations to unanswered questions to verified facts. This data is found during a full investigation by the FBI. They talk to friends and associates of the person of interest. This data might even contain cheapshots by political adversaries who want to ruin your career. That’s why the FBI’s files are kept confidential.
That’s why it’s impossible to believe that the Obama administration didn’t know what type of things Van Jones was into. Add to this the fact that everyone who works in the administration gets checked and it’s impossible to believe that President Obama didn’t know that Van Jones wasn’t a radical. In fact, considering how many radicals inhabit this administration, it’s more likely that radicals are prefered over trditionalists.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
September 4th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Actually, I’d be immensely surprised if Duh-1 appointed anyone who 1) wasn’t a tax cheat or 2) hadn’t had other pressing legal problems before or 3) wasn’t at a minimum socialist ideologue.