The Other Power in the West Wing [Getting answers about Benghazi]

The New York Times ^ | 9/1/2012 | JO BECKER

[PieterCasparzen]

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“She’s there to try to promote what she understands to be what the president wants,” the former aide said. “Ultimately the president makes his own decisions. The question that is hard to get inside of, the black box, is whether she is really influencing him or merely executing decisions he’s made. That’s like asking, ‘Is the light on in the refrigerator when the door is closed?’ ”

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When the billionaire investor Warren E. Buffett showed up for a private lunch with the president last July, the table was set for three.

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Mr. Obama’s first two chiefs of staff, Rahm Emanuel and Mr. Daley, clashed with Ms. Jarrett over strategic direction and over who had greater authority to interpret and carry out the president’s wishes, several officials said.

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She is the only staff member who regularly follows the president home from the West Wing to the residence, a practice that has earned her the nickname “the Night Stalker.” By day, Mr. Obama is “Mr. President” to her, but in social settings, he is just “Barack.” When the Obamas take an out-of-town break, she often goes along.

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A case in point is her full-time Secret Service detail. The White House refuses to disclose the number of agents or their cost, citing security concerns. But the appearance so worried some aides that two were dispatched to urge her to give the detail up.

She listened politely, one said, but the agents stayed.

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She serves as the front door to the donors who helped elect the president, reviewing guest lists to White House parties and candidates for patronage positions. But she has snubbed some early supporters, among them the financier George Soros, ignoring his pleas for a substantive meeting on the economy with the president.

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[LRoggy]

Gee, wan’t it 18 months ago we knew this (from the person whose name shall not be named “U*******n” - shhh!)

[arasina]

You're right. Valerie fills the Mommy space.

[tegan48]

She has a staff of three dozen? That’s absurd. I’m guessing she has a whole brigade of secret service agents too. After the election ( and Romney’s win) I think she may have more trouble than even Obama losing all that power and prestige. I wouldn’t be surprised if Obama issues an executive order extending her secret service protection after they leave the White House.

While Obama may have been present, I totally believe that it was Jarrett who made the decision to not send any assistance to our people in Benghazi.

[gotribe]

I never liked Rice. I don’t like rice and lamb.

[hummingbird]

"She serves as the front door to the donors who helped elect the president, reviewing guest lists to White House parties"

Did she know, in advance, about that couple who "crashed" the state dinner (I think it was a state dinner) that was held in tents outside the WH. I think their name is like "Saleri".

It was somewhat of a deal because it showed a lack of security for the POTUS when just anyone could crash a party where the POTUS, and maybe also the VPOTUS, were gathered - both of them being even worse, I guess.

[Georgia Girl 2]

O’Bama’s mamma worked for Valerie Jarrett’s father and now Barry works for her.

[Fred Nerks]

How you fit Stanley Ann Dunham, who was born in 1942 into that story, beats me:

KEYWIKI -

Valerie Jarrett was born in Shiraz, Iran to American parents, James E. Bowman and Barbara Taylor Bowman. She spent the first five years of her life in Iran before her family moved to London. Following a year in London, the family moved to Chicago’s elite neighborhood, Hyde Park.

In 1983 she married Dr. William Robert Jarrett, son of famed Chicago Sun-Times reporter Vernon Jarrett. They were divorced in 1988 and William Jarrett died in 1993.

The Jarretts and the Bowmans were family friends.

Vernon Jarrett was a one time political associate of Communist Party USA activist and Obama mentor Frank Marshall Davis.

Valerie Jarrett is the great niece of prominent Democratic Party leftist Vernon Jordan.

Her maternal grandfather was Robert Taylor, the first black chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority.

http://keywiki.org/index.php/Valerie_B._Jarrett

[advertising guy]

2 points Boss

1. within 8 hours or less a you tube is gonna shake foundations about Frank Marshall and besides other places it will show up here

2. Libya.......the story is about to nuke nationwide within 24 to 36 hours..

[Fred Nerks]

OK, you got my attention. Another FMD revelation? So who is he the father of this time? Are there still people who get their kicks from calling Stanley Ann Dunham a whore and a skank? A girl just out of high school supposedly in the few months that she was allegedly in Hawaii, developes a taste for black men, one 35 years older than she was, and older than her father? And in that short time, she poses for a collection of nude images which circulate in numerous magazines? While at the same time attending university on Hawaii. She’s described as a high achiever in high school and within three months she’s not only having relations with an old black man but she’s pregnant and married to a married student from Kenya - that’s got to be the most high speed transformation I have ever heard of.
(Considering that no one in Hawaii, other than Neil Abercrombie says they ever set eyes on her.)

And if Libya goes nationwide before the election I’ll eat my hat. But ping me, I’m all ears. Thanks in advance.

[advertising guy]

I ain’t one who pushed on of those theories...not one....

but Barack Sr......ain’t

and bet your all ears posture...Bengazi WILL explode in 12 to 24 hours

gun runnin w/ docs and also to al queida. with docs

and the myth this is or will be O vs Hill is BS

everyone of of em is joined at the strap-on and willingly

[Fred Nerks]

What we need is a great unravelling, all we seem to have is lots and lots of strings...see my previous comment:

Vernon Jarrett was a one time political associate of Communist Party USA activist and Obama mentor Frank Marshall Davis.

And they all lived in Hyde Park, including David Axelrod, whose wife was on a committee with Mrs Charles T Payne, who is the sister-in-law of Madelyn Dunham.

Charles T Payne was the deputy director of the University of Chicago Library, at which university zero was a lecturer.

A nest of vipers. And now, Bengahzi.

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2951507/posts?page=33#33

VIDEO: McCain: Obama Benghazi handling a cover-up or incompetence (CBS Face the Nation)
CBS Face the Nation/Bob Schieffer ^ | 10/28/12 | John McCain/Bob Schieffer

[combat_boots]

Prepare for whoopass (an inside view)

[advertising guy]

Boss...I’m there with ya...I’ve read every word you have sourced and typed. Every word. I’m the type of freeper who DOES NOT enter at post 132 and ax a question already ax’d and answered on post 87....I read every word,every post, every thread.

Oh course I speed read the recipes and hey howdys but devour every bite of meat....Every time.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Stanley Ann Dunham used to work for Valerie Jarrets father Vernon Jordan.

[Fred Nerks]

Weekly Featured Profile
Valerie Jarrett currently works as a senior advisor to U.S. president Barack Obama and has been referred to as “the other side of Obama’s brain.” Born in Shiraz, Iran to American parents, Jarrett spent the first five years of her life there before her family moved to London. Jarrett comes from a family of highly influential leftists. In 1983 she married Dr. William Robert Jarrett, son of famed Chicago Sun-Times reporter Vernon Jarrett. Vernon Jarrett was a one time political associate of Communist Party USA activist and Obama mentor Frank Marshall Davis. Jarrett is the great niece of prominent Democratic Party leftist Vernon Jordan and her maternal grandfather was Robert Taylor, the first black chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority. Jarrett is a personal friend of Marilyn Katz who worked with Students for a Democratic Society, the 1960s group that banded radical left youth and students together under the New Left movement.

After graduating from the University of Michigan Law School, Jarrett went to work for Chicago’s first African-American mayor, Democratic Socialists of America-supported Harold Washington. After Washington’s death in 1987, she stayed on under his successor, Richard Daley. In City Hall, she and her colleague Susan Sher recruited Michelle Robinson, then engaged to Barack Obama, and Jarrett quickly melded her way into their lives. In 2004 Jarrett served as Finance Chair for Obama’s 2004 run for the U.S. Senate. In September 2008, Chicago based socialist journal In These Times contributing editor Laura Washington suggested Valerie Jarrett for Urban Development Secretary based on her work as CEO of the Habitat Co. - “a clout-heavy Chicago real estate firm” - and the court-appointed overseer of the city’s massive plan to transform its notoriously decrepit public housing developments. Jarrett served as Senior Advisor to Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and subsequently served as Co-Chair of the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team. (more...)

http://keywiki.org/index.php/Main_Page

[Fred Nerks]

Nice reply, thanks. I call it as I see it, ain’t got no proof, just common sense. Don’t forget to ping me. I wanna be there when the dam breaks.

[Fred Nerks]

Stanley Ann Dunham used to work for Valerie Jarrets father Vernon Jordan.

From keywiki:

Jarrett is the great niece of prominent Democratic Party leftist Vernon Jordan

now tell me, just when did Stanley Ann Dunham work for the great uncle of Valerie Jarrett?

[little jeremiah]

There’s so much going on, and I have so little time (time seems to have been doing something strange lately; getting compressed or something) - I figured finally the best way to find out stuff aside from “latest articles”.

Look up both your names and a couple more and read your comments and see what threads you’re on.

(best to both of you...)