I wonder if there’s a prog equivalent of journal-list where they coordinate their talking points? Shortly after he started floating this claim, Pelosi’s daughter was pushing a different version of the same story, demanding an investigation of the “defective platoon”.
He wears a lot of hats. He wrote an article for Time Magazine June 3rd (about the VA scandal). He works for HUD. He worked for the VA (and cited that as his credit in the Time article he authored). He was vice-chairman for VoteVets.Org and has appeared in 2008 on Oberdork's program representing them and attacking Bush and McCain.
He's a career Democrat activist, sitting away at unelected positions doing his deeds.