Major Garrett reports that Van Jones didn’t have to fill out the infamous questionnaire that was intended to remove all surprises from one’s past life.
In this interview, Major Garrett suggests that Jones’ “miss” was due either to a breakdown in the vetting process or that the Czars are not sufficiently high ranking to merit a vetting. In his hypothesis, Major misses the obvious door #3.
Jones and likely the other Czars, have become Czars and avoided vetting for one simple reason; they couldn’t pass the vetting.
Is there a question in any one’s mind that if under “relationships and affiliations”, Van Jones would have said “Communist”, he would have passed muster? Well, he might have given what we know about Obama’s own preferences but he wouldn’t have passed the public review.
The Czars are Czars for two simple reasons: 1: they align with Obama’s own personal views and 2: Making the views public via a public vetting process would ensure that they were never accepted for the position.
I saw that part a few hours after reading it on Gateway Pundit.
I wonder, did Major get the idea for that from Gateway Pundit?
I know they often steal from conservative bloggers, you can tell who is big at the time by who they steal from.
Now Gateway is big so they’re stealing from him. Look for a bunch of his stuff on Brett Baier’s “Grapevine” segment.
Of course the REAL question is the minor little detail of where were all these handsomely-paid MSM types who think so well of themselves when these people were first being considered for their posts? But then we already know the answer to that…
What? You want actual reporting? When pigs fly!