Monday, September 3, 2012

NYT: Valerie Jarrett Real Power In White House, Has Full Secret Service Detail

A bombshell front-page story in Sunday’s New York Times investigates Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to President Obama and chair of the “White House council on women and girls,” according to her official biography.
Among the revelations included in the Times exposé: Jarrett is protected by a 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.
The article describes Jarrett, heir to a Chicago real-estate fortune and a longtime fixer for former Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley as well as for President Obama, as “the other power in the West Wing.”
For example, when billionaire investor and Obama supporter Warren Buffett visited the White House for lunch last July, “the table was set for three”: Buffett, the president of the United States, and Valerie Jarrett.
Jarrett once ordered “a drink from a four-star general she mistook for a waiter” at a White House event, according to the report.

Read more: http://freebeacon.com/driving-ms-jarrett/

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