Adviser to Obama quits over remarks
Victim of 'smear campaign,' he says
Posted: September 7, 2009 at 2:41 a.m.
The White House environmental adviser under fire for inflammatory statements made before he joined the administration resigned after what he called a "vicious smear campaign against me." Van Jones "understood that he was going to get in the way" of President Barack Obama's agenda, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Sunday.
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