In your Ode to Mort you suggest that Glenn Greenwald should try sticking to the facts in the future, while you may have “accidentally” omitted a few key facts of your own. Let’s quickly review.

You state that you 1) “know Mort”, 2) “had the opportunity to work with him at the State Department during the Clinton Administration, when I was Chief of Staff to Assistant Secretary Harold Hongju Koh in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) and he was Director of Policy Planning” and 3) “neither contacted nor consulted him before writing this post.” Very thorough treatment, Mr. Brown. Or is it?

It’s my understanding that while heading Citizens for Global Solutions (formerly a world federalist group), you, along with the Washington Note’s Steve Clemons, your former CGS colleague and TWN contributor Scott Paul (http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2008/08/the_view_from_m_3/)and Don Kraus, worked VERY closely with Mort Halperin to organize and, more importantly, FUND through private contributions the Stop Bolton campaign (http://www.undiplomatic.net/2008/08/12/wonkd-why-the-un-human-rights-council-blows/). Could this possibly be true?

If so, did you simply forget this itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny fact? Maybe it just slipped your mind?

If so, doesn’t your loyal reader deserve to know ALL the facts and not just the ones that “support” your poorly constructed case?

If so, don’t your holier-than-thou ramblings ring more than just a little bit hollow?

If so, wouldn’t it be understandable that some might view this as your currying favor with a potential employer or pandering to a potential funder?

Here’s a bit of unsolicited advice. It might be best for you, in debates that revolve around questions of honor and integrity, not to fire rocks in your very, very fragile crystalline house.