Welcome Clownhall Readers!

And thanks for putting me in such good company with Steve Benen and Matthew Yglesias and Big Tent Democrat and John Cole and Glenn Greenwald!

It is, of course, deeply shocking to me that the author of "Painting the Map Red" and "If It's Not Close, They Can't Cheat" can't understand that a deliberate US military strategy of outreach to ideologues such as himself saps confidence that they will administer reports with independent assessments.

Oh wait, no it doesn't.

UPDATE: Another example of the politicization of the Pentagon. Kind of sickening if you think about it.