Controversial Obama Administration Official Denies Being Part of 9/11 "Truther" Movement, (LIAR)

ABC ^ | 9/3/2009 | Jake Tapper

[tobyhill]

A top environmental official of the Obama administration issued a statement Thursday apologizing for past incendiary statement and denying that he ever agreed with a 2004 petition on which his name appears, a petition calling for congressional hearings and an investigation by the New York Attorney General into "evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the September 11th attacks to occur."

Van Jones, the Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, is Number 46 of the petitioners from the so-called "Truther" movement which suggests that people in the administration of President George W. Bush "may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war."

[BornToBeAmerican]

Duck!!! It’s starting to hit the fan

[Carl LaFong]

He’ll probably resign for ‘personal reasons’ over the holiday weekend when the news is buried. Next tuesday it will be Van Who? Never heard of him, wingnuts.

[swheats]

I’d like to see that...the shirtless part...the guy is so covered you can’t see nothing.

Must have a lot of tats or some major insecurities.

[what's up]

Problem the WH has with this guy is this...

If the controversy over Van continues to be aired people will remember Palin's words about Ozero palling around with radicals.

They may start to think, "Hmmm....maybe Palin was right after all?"

This kind of coverage is dangerous for the left and a possible public re-examination of Palin and how she was right....

[Cheetahcat]

The Good thing is they are all being exposed for what they are Marxist Rubbish DemocRats. The bad thing here the Kenyan is putting them in power.

[tobyhill]

Now they’re lying radicals.

Van Jones can’t lie his way out of this one.

[Sarah Barracuda]

So now he is denying that he agrees with the petition, but he SIGNED IT LOL. This guy is as dumb as a bucket of rocks.

[tobyhill]

He’s trying to hedge his words very carefully but it’s going to backfire on him.

[BunnySlippers]

You can tangle with Jake Tapper on Twitter as I do every day. Yesterday he told me he doesn’t trust my judgement.

He answers back. Sometimes nicely, sometimes not.

http://twitter.com/jaketapper

[Deo volente]

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2406

Jones says that he first became politically radicalized in the aftermath of the deadly April 1992 Los Angeles riots which erupted shortly after four L.A. police officers who had beaten the infamous Rodney King were exonerated in court. "I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th," says Jones, who is black, "and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist."

Jones was arrested during the L.A. riots and spent a short time in jail. "I met all these young radical people of color," he recalls, "I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.' I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary."

[Travis McGee]

Ask Jake if he still gets memos from ABC News political director Mark Halperin telling him to slant the news leftward. Like the memo Halperin sent to all ABC political reporters in Oct. 2004, telling his reporters not to “reflexively and artificially hold both sides (Kerry and Bush) equally accountable.” Google Drudge, Halperin memo etc to get the full story.

How Jake could continue working for a “news network” that explicitly orders reporters to slant the news is beyond me.

[ETL]

Yes, I need to better bold-highlight that piece (as you did).

I’ll do it now to the one that’s on my FR Home page.

Thanks.

[BunnySlippers]

You can check Jake Tapper’s Wikipedia entry. He is a way out Lefty. He does not need any encouragement.

[Arizona Carolyn]

I guess it is easy enough to have a handwriting expert check his signature.

[Deo volente]

Don’t mention it. Your research has been an incredible asset to this site. You’ve also given me a new tagline.

[AmericanInTokyo]

It may now need to escalate to the level of a Freep (peacful protest) in front of this guy’s house in D.C. Looks like they are going to dig their heels in and “weather the storm”.