CTV.Ca:Obama’s green “czar” Van Jones quits amid controversy (Goverment is responsible for 911)
A top environmental adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama has resigned from his job in the midst of what he calls “a vicious smear campaign against me.”
Van Jones, an adviser on environmentally friendly “green jobs” with the White House Council on Environmental Quality, has been linked to a group that has questioned whether the U.S. government had a role in the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Recent news reports have claimed that Jones’s name was included on a 2004 petition that called for congressional hearings into whether decisions made by high-level government officials may have led to the attacks.
Videotape also surfaced depicting Jones, a former civil rights activist from California who later changed his focus to environmental and energy issues, using crude language to describe Republicans.
“On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me,” Jones said in his resignation statement.
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