Pushed out because the scandal threatened to implicate Obama friend and White House adviser Valerie Jarrett

Damaging Disclosures in Van Jones Scandal

By Cliff Kincaid
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

The documents indicate that a resignation letter was written for Jones and issued in his name.

When Van Jones resigned his White House job, under fire for his pro-communist views, White House adviser David Axelrod said that Jones had himself made the decision to leave the administration. But new documents indicate that Jones didn’t even write his own resignation letter. It is now abundantly clear that he was pushed out because the scandal threatened to implicate Obama friend and White House adviser Valerie Jarrett in the scandal that gave him a critical White House position without proper vetting.

Jones, a self-identified communist, was an anti-police activist in Oakland, California, before an extreme makeover landed him at the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C. as a “senior fellow.â€