DEAD MAN WALKING:

White House Says Little About Embattled Jones (Garance Franke-Ruta and Anne E. Kornblut, 9/05/09, Washington Post)

White House officials offered tepid support Friday for Van Jones, the administration's embattled energy efficiency guru, who has issued two public apologies this week, one for signing a petition that questioned whether Bush administration officials "may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war."