WorldNetDaily Exclusive 'Green Jobs Czar' Van Jones resigns

A Free Press For A Free People WORLDNETDAILY EXCLUSIVE 'Green Jobs Czar' Van Jones resigns WND's 5-month series of exposés  lead to White House's first casualty   WASHINGTON – Barack Obama's "Green Jobs Czar" Van Jones quit late last night after pressure mounted over his extremist history first exposed in WND. The last straw for Jones was being caught on tape in an expletive-packed rant, directly attacking Republicans in the Senate who he said abused their majority position in the past to push legislation through. He admitted after the statements were released that the comments were "inappropriate" and "offensive." "They do not reflect the experience I have had since joining the administration," Jones said in the statement. Jones was also  linked late last week to efforts suggesting a government role in the Sept. 11 terror attacks and to derogatory comments about Republicans. When the White House press corps grilled White House press secretary Robert Gibbs about Jones on Friday, a reporter asked how the administration could reject "conspiracy theories" about his birth certificate while employing someone who previously charged the U.S. government with masterminding Sept. 11. Gibbs said only that Jones "continues to work in the administration," a non-ringing endorsement that set the stage for his ouster. Jones' name appeared on a petition calling for congressional hearings and other investigations into whether high-level government officials had orchestrated the attacks. Jones flatly said in his statement that he did not agree with the petition's stand and that "it certainly does not reflect my views, now or ever." As for his other comments he made before joining Obama's team, Jones said: "If I have offended anyone with statements I made in the past, I apologize." In April, Aaron Klein, Jerusalem bureau chief for WND.com, broke the first major story on Jones who was identified as a self-described radical communist and "rowdy black nationalist" who said his environmental activism was actually a means to fight for racial and class "justice." Succeeding revelations by WND included: Jones previously served on the board of an environmental activist group at which a founder of the Weather Underground terrorist organization is a top director. Jones was co-founder of a black activist organization that has led a campaign prompting major advertisers to withdraw from Glenn Beck's top-rated Fox News Channel program. The revelation followed Beck's reports on WND's story about Jones' communist background. That Jones and other White House appointees may have been screened by an ACORN associate. One day after the 9/11 attacks, Jones led a vigil that expressed solidarity with Arab and Muslim Americans as well as what he called the victims of "U.S. imperialism" around the world. Just days before his White House appointment, Jones used a forum at a major youth convention to push for a radical agenda that included spreading the wealth and "changing the whole system." Jones' Maoist manifesto while leading the group Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM, was scrubbed from the Internet after being revealed by WND. Jones was the main speaker at an anti-war rally that urged "resistance" against the U.S. government – a demonstration sponsored by an organization associated with the Revolutionary Communist Party. In a 2005 conference, Jones characterized the U.S. as an "apartheid regime" that civil rights workers helped turn into a "struggling, fledgling democracy." Jones signed a petition calling for nationwide "resistance" against police, accusing them of using the 9/11 attacks to carry out policies of torture. While talk radio and cable television picked up WND's reporting and increased the pressure on the administration to cut Jones loose, there was no significant news media coverage of the scandal by the major U.S. news media until late last week.   Read this and other stories at WorldNetDaily.com    This email was sent to brad0222002.economy@blogger.com as a subscriber to the News Alerts from WND.com email list. To manage your email delivery preferences, click here. To immediately and permanently unsubscribe, click here. WorldNetDaily.com | 249 E. Ocean Blvd, Ste 325 | Long Beach, CA 90802 Copyright 1997-2009 WorldNetDaily.com Inc. All Rights Reserved.