Where is Van Jones' Background Check?

Not only is Van Jones a liar, who said he didn't say what is absolutely what he did say when it came to being a 9/11 "troofer". Not only is he a communist. But he may be other things as well. We'd know if he had a background check done on him, but we are told that they are not done on Obama's Czars, which I find ..interesting. For one anyone working in the government knows that anyone with access to the president and priviledged communication needs to have a security clearance. Since Czars have access to the president and power over Government entities, it would seem that they are no exception to the rule. Moreover such background checks are public information in accordance with the FOIA. The reason they don't do these backgrounds is obvious, especially in the case of Jones, given all the things he's been doing with this life. But you would think just a rudimentary check of the internet would have been enough to forego any appointment of Jones, which leaves us to believe that perhaps Barack Obama doesn't give two flips what the American people think. That's funny considering the Obama Administration posted a 63 page questionnaire last year, it's here.'' Remember these gems?

"10) Writings: Please list and, if readily available, provide a copy of each book, article, column or publication (including but not limited to any post or comments on blogs or other websites) you have authored, individually or with others. Please list all aliases or "handles" you have used to communicate on the Internet. (14) Diaries: If you keep or have ever kept a diary that contains anything that could suggest a conflict of interest or be a possible source of embarrassment to you, your family, or the President-Elect if it were made public, please describe. (16) Please list each membership, including any board memberships, you or your spouse have or have had with any political, civic, social, charitable, educational, professional, fraternal, benevolent or religious organization, private club or other membership organization (including any type of tax-exempt organization) during the past ten years. Please include dates of membership and any positions you may have had with the organization. (61) Have you had any association with any person, group or business venture that could be used - even unfairly - to impugn or attack your character and qualifications for government service? (63) Please provide any other information, including information about other members of your family, that could suggest a conflict of interest or be a possible source of embarrassment to you, your family, or the President-Elect."

So obviously Mr. Jones never filled this questionnaire out, or if he did, Obama didn't read it. Nevertheless, if no background check was done and it's the administration's stance that they don't need it for Jones, I'm hear to tell them they are wrong.

Will Obama ask Van Jones to Step Down

It's obvious that Obama's "Green Czar" has no business being in such a close association with the president of the United States. Bloggers have been talking about him for months now, but the media is beginning to notice too.

"President Obama's "green jobs" adviser could become a mounting liability for the Obama administration, as the latest revelation about Van Jones shows his belief that the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks may have been an inside job.

Jones joined the "9/11 truther" movement by signing a statement in 2004 calling for then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and others to launch an investigation into evidence that suggests "people within the current administration may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war."

The statement asked a series of critical questions hinting at Bush administration involvement in the attacks and called for "deeper inquiry." It was also signed by former Rep. Cynthia McKinney and Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans.

The discovery comes after Jones had to apologize Wednesday night for "offensive words" he uttered in February when he called Republicans "assholes." He said the remarks "do not reflect the views of this administration" and its bipartisan aims.

But such statements just scratch the surface of Jones' past commentary.

He also has consistently leaned on racially charged language, pointing the finger at "white polluters and the white environmentalists" for "steering poison" to minority communities, as he makes the case for lifting up low-income and minority communities with better environmental policy.

A declared "communist" during the 1990s, Jones once associated with a group that looked to Mao Zedong as an inspiration.

Jones' exceptional past is reminiscent of associations noted during the presidential campaign, when then-Sen. Barack Obama doggedly fended off claims that he was tied to radicals and overzealous activists.

But with now-President Obama entering the perhaps trickiest phase of his young presidency -- building the kind of consensus around health care reform that President Clinton could not -- a divisive figure could prove disfiguring.

"In this environment, I think the Obama administration should be very careful of its dealings with anybody who can be labeled communist accurately," said Christopher C. Hull, an adjunct government professor at Georgetown University who runs the public affairs firm Issue Management. "

Of course it's not news that Barack Obama has some strange and radical friends. Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, the list goes on. Now an avowed communist and 9/11 Truther. This is a dangerous individual to have such close access to the President of the United States. Barack Obama cannot be friends with the light and the dark at the same time. The American people simply will not tolerate it.

Van Jones must go.

Now.

 UPDATE:  Jones is laughingly denying it now.  His people have told ABC that he didn't "properly review the petition" on the 9/11 troofer site.

So the Czar can't read either?

UPDATE II:  Charles Krauthammer says Jones should be fired.