Obama adviser quits amid 9-11 controversy

by Barry Artiste | September 6, 2009 at 07:54 am

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Barry Artiste Op.Ed

9-11 always a political football with the US electorate can get you elected or fired depending on your view of the cause and circumstances in who is responsible. Certainly Foot in Mouth Disease may have played a part in Van Jones resignation.

Wacky Mel Gibson style theories, mirroring Van Jones certainly have no place in Government if it is true of these allegations.

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.